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"I identify with the weak person; this is one reason why my fictional protagonists are essentially antiheroes."
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Why carry around one of those bulky, inflexible tablets when you could just slip a display scroll into your pocket?
The device could respond to user gestures taken from special gloves:
Another wave of his hand and the image switched to a high-def video...
Compare to a larger rollable display, the poster tv from Larry Niven's 1976 novel A World Out of Time. See also the pocket-sized polycarbon phone screen from Idoru, a 1986 novel by William Gibson.
Also, recall the rollable map display, beautifully rendered in the 2000 movie Red Planet.
(Red Planet movie rollable map display)
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