The other mite looked like a spacecraft as envisioned by Jules Verne. It 
had a streamlined, teardrop shape, a pair of manipulator arms folded neatly 
against its fuselage, and a deep cylindrical cavity in the nose that Judge Fang 
took to be its eye. "This one sees light in the ultraviolet range," Miss Pao 
said. "Despite their differences, each does the same
thing: searches for books. When it finds a book, it lands on the cover and 
crawls to the edge, then creeps between the pages and examines the internal 
structure of the paper."