Nan, remember when I said I didn't like the first encounter with kryptonite? I lied (crosses fingers behind back) Can we still be friends? Please come back, your fans need you, they look up to you. (paraphrasing game Alpha Centauri)

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.