# Help identify this book.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book/742005>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 2, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book/742005 "2016-01-02T18:09:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book/742005/1 "2016-01-02T18:09:49Z")

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I read it as a child. I don’t really remember what it was about but I remember one scene.

A child from the future is expressing his surprise at how the pages in a book stay the same and don’t change to a different story when you flip the page back like all books do where he’s from.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book/742005/2 "2016-01-02T21:00:57Z")

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\*\* The Fun They Had\*\* by Isaac Asimov.

[http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/funtheyhad.html](http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/funtheyhad.html)

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book/742005/3 "2016-01-02T21:15:00Z")

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> [@Galwegian](#):
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> \*\* The Fun They Had\*\* by Isaac Asimov.
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> [The Fun They Had](http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/funtheyhad.html)

Thank you!! 🙂