Austen on demand: New bookstore's machine prints any book you want

A London bookstore has installed a new machine that will print an entire book on demand in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee.

Readers choose one of 400,000 titles from a screen, and the so-called Espresso Book Machine, which looks like an exceptionally ugly copier, prints at a rate of 105 pages per minute, clamps and binds the newly trimmed pages to look just like a library-quality volume, and delivers the new paperback book in five minutes. You could also print the book yourself at home, if you want -- just B.Y.O. USB.