Dune - Orange Catholic Bible by tomjeromenewton

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"It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers. Not a filmbook, but actually printed on filament paper. It has its own magnifier and electrostatic charge system."
He picked it up, demonstrated. "The book is held closed by the charge, which forces against spring-locked covers. You press the edge -- thus, and the pages you've selected repel each other and the book opens."
"It's so small."
"But it has eighteen hundred pages. You press the edge -- thus, and so . . . and the charge moves ahead one page at a time as you read. Never touch the actual pages with your fingers. The filament tissue is too delicate." He closed the book, handed it to Paul. "Try it."
(Dune, 1965)
My latest Dune-related print, I wanted to try and make a model of the miniature Orange Catholic Bible that Yueh gives to Paul. I went with a typical book design, then added the notches that mark Yueh's favorite passages, and also made the magnifier. The Arabic text on the cover translates as "O C B" - I originally went with the letters in the Latin alphabet but then decided on Arabic given its influence on the Dune series.
(Also for anyone who may have stumbled onto this but has no idea what an 'Orange Catholic Bible' is, it's a holy book from the Dune series, a fusion of most of the major earth religious texts)