In this story, a man given a computer because he says he is bored with reading books has to cope with many conflicting demands on his time and how he lives his life that is caused by something seemingly so simple and easy-to-use. What will he make of it? And what his friends make of his new hobby...? And what will anyone think, or he himself think or come to terms with it, when he begins to spend longer and longer on just using his computer, and...