http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1958000/1958424.stm
As well as combining a security tag and virtual barcode in one piece of technology, this makes it possible for a book to "remember" each transaction, from publisher to wholesaler, retailer to customer and (if the book is sold second-hand) beyond. Similarly, books borrowed from libraries could retain a record of every reader to have perused their pages. ... It seems that future copies of Abbie Hoffman's famous 1970 manifesto for a free society, Steal This Book, might one day come with an electronic record of everyone who was tempted to do just that.
