xkcd To Be Released In Book Form

History's Coming To writes "xkcd creator Randall Munroe has revealed on his blag that the acclaimed stick-figure comic will be produced in real dead-tree book form. Fantastic news for all fans of comedy, maths, science, and relationship screw-ups — especially given that the book will be sold in aid of the charity 'Room To Read.' Rumors that the book contains a joke in the ISBN remain unconfirmed." The NY Times article that Munroe links (registration may be required) is from April of this year, and I am amazed that this community didn't note the story at that time. The book will be published by breadpig, which was created by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit.

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Oblig xkcd reference

[ZiakII]

http://www.xkcd.com/

Re:Oblig xkcd reference

[gamefaces]

Brings up a good point. Just how are you supposed to link to a book? I can see it now, There's an xkcd for that (page 30).

Re:Oblig xkcd reference

[Kadagan AU]

It deals double damage.

Limitations of Dead Tree

[AnonGCB]

So if I look at the pictures in the book long enough will the alt text pop up?

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[StreetStealth]

Maybe it will be printed in margin, or perhaps the endnotes?

More importantly to me, at least, I hope the format is small enough to fit one per page, so that the page numbers match up. I'm not weird for knowing the strips by their numbers, right?

"Oops, you got an injection attack! 327!"

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[Aeternitas827]

"Oops, you got an injection attack! 327!"

I almost tried that IRL. My wife wouldn't let me pick our daughter's name.

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Dude, Summer Glau is so going to rip your beating heart out of your chest out for that.

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[belrick]

So if I look at the pictures in the book long enough will the alt text pop up?

Yes.

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[srothroc]

Only if you cross your eyes and slowly move the book forward from your nose.

Re:Limitations of Dead Tree

[6Yankee]

Look on the bright side. You have a child, so clearly your injection attack was successful...

Re:I might buy this book...

[MichaelSmith]

I don't always have the internet with me, in a form convenient for viewing xkcd or anything similar

Randall take note. This guy is a rich source of meta tech culture irony.

Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though

[Praedon]

You sir, have just earned yourself a gold star, and a friend mark on Slashdot.

Helpimtrappedintheisbndatabase

[FlyByPC]

>Rumors that the book contains a joke in the ISBN remain unconfirmed. Were we talking about any other author, I would scoff. But this being xkcd, it actually sounds plausible.

Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though

[basementman]

Hey can you fix the Slashdot CSS while you're here?

Re:I might buy this book...

[monkeySauce]

That, and turning pages and reading is faster than mindless clicking a next button that's never in quite the same spot

And listening is faster and less mindless than turning pages so yeah I'll wait for the audiobook.

Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though

[Threni]

> Don't shit on your readers mate.

I can't tell if that sentence is missing a comma or an apostrophe...

Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though

[Anonymous Coward]

The article was posted by kdawson from the 'my-normal-approach-is-useless-here' dept.

'here'?

Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though

[Ihmhi]

Maybe it's going to be a pop-up book? Pull the slider, see the alt text?