Book Chute

The Book Chute, or Library Processing Unit 232.7, is an automated personality in the Big MT in 2281.Name from dialogue 
==Background==
The Book Chute is a mechanical device located in the Sink, acting as a recycling device for old books and writing implements. As such, it is capable of rapidly pulping, processing, and generating blank books from any written material input. It can also break down pencils and clipboards into raw materials for re-use. However, it was disabled shortly after Doctor Mobius left the Think Tank for the Forbidden Zone. 
When his personality back-up is recovered from Dr. Klein's house (House 101 in Higgs Village), it gains the personality of a stereotypical, jingoist censor. The book chute considers all pre-War books to be seditious material and it desires nothing more than their wholesale recycling into properly patriotic books (blanks) in order to protect the citizenry. 
It reacts with disbelief and fury to any mention of Communism, communists, or independent thought. If its indoctrination module wasn't stripped due to budgetary issues, it'd deal with it more directly, but without it, it can only recommend putting one's head in a cage with mole rats.
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
All My Friends Have Off Switches: The Book Chute is one of the appliances the Courier must upgrade.
===Other interactions===
The Book Chute converts old books into blank books, with each old book turned in yielding one blank book. The books that it will accept are as follows:
These blank books can, in turn, be used at a workbench to create one skill book of each type. The player character will need to acquire the recipe holotape (which are single-use items) for the skill book they wish to assemble, as well as 25 blank books and two bottles of wonderglue.
The mulching upgrade allows the Book Chute to breakdown any type of clipboard into one duct tape and one scrap metal. It can also breakdown pencils into five lead and one scrap metal for each turned in.
The four clipboard types it accepts include:
* Clipboards
* Earnings clipboards
* Finance clipboards
* Medical clipboards
==Notes==
* Borous references the Book Chute in a pre-recorded message in the X-8 research center. He refers to it as an "incendiary chute" and both are anti-communists.
* If the Courier protests in destroying "relics of the past," the Book Chute will claim to have an "Indoctrinate Module" planning to be installed, this option was cut though due to budget concerns.
* Like the other personalities, the Book Chute has a new greeting after the completion of Old World Blues, but his goes unused due to a bug.
* A reliable location to find books is the X-8 research center, over a hundred can be found there.
==Notable quotes==
==Appearances==
The Book Chute appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
==Behind the scenes==
* The character is an amalgam of several concepts from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. 
** The book chute concept is reminiscent of the "memory holes" present within the "Ministry of Truth" where the material that contradicts the current government line are placed never to be located again. 
**The self-indoctrination tool ("a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats.") is a direct reference to a form of torture used in the novel's finale, which finally breaks Winston Smith's resistance.
* The model number is a reference to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which when converted into metric is 232.7 Celsius. The book presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.
==Gallery==
Nvdlc03 endingslide bookchute.jpg|Book Chute ending slide 
==References==
Category:Old World Blues characters
Category:Big MT characters
Category:Computer characters
Category:Old World Blues robots and computers
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