What do you think a telebook is? (The Fun They Had)

A 'Telebook' (Television-Book) is a digital, electronic book that is displayed on a television screen or a computer monitor.

Instead of physically turning paper pages, the words in a telebook move across the screen automatically. It is basically the futuristic version of what we today call an e-book, Kindle, or a PDF document reading on a tablet.

In the story, 13-year-old Tommy finds a very old, dusty, physical paper book in his attic. When 11-year-old Margie looks at it, she is completely shocked and confused.

• The difference: In her everyday telebook, the text constantly scrolls and moves across the screen. But in this old paper book, the words were completely still. When she turned the page back, it had the exact same words on it that it had before! To a child of 2157, a physical book that didn't move or change was a very "funny" and strange thing.

Tommy thought the old paper book was a complete "waste." He argued that once you finish reading a paper book, you have to throw it away because it is useless. He proudly stated that his computer screen held millions of telebooks inside it, and he would never have to throw his screen away.