Book Chute

"Ah! Good day, citizen! Library processing unit 232.7 is on-line and ready to eradicate sedition!"

Book Chute is a character in the Big MT in 2281.

Background
The Book Chute is a mechanical device that is located in The Sink. Like other systems in The Sink, it was disabled shortly after Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank for the Forbidden Zone. When his personality back-up is recovered from House #101 (Dr. Klein's House), he speaks with personality akin to a dystopian authority, promising to protect citizens from 'seditious material'; namely, pre-war books. According to dialog, he was also supposed to come equipped with an indoctrination module, but it was stripped to suit the R&D budget. He instead will instruct the player in how to perform a self-indoctrination, involving a small cage and a sack of mole rats.

Quests

 * All My Friends Have Off Switches: Book Chute is one of the appliances you have to upgrade.

Other interactions

 * The Book Chute converts pre-War books, large ruined books, large destroyed books, large scorched books, small ruined books, and small burned books into blank books. These blank books can, in turn, be used at a workbench to create a single skill book of each type. The player will need to acquire at least one of the thirteen recipe holotapes (which unfortunately are single use items) for the skillbook they wish to assemble, 25 Blank Books and two bottles of wonderglue.
 * The mulching upgrade allows the Book Chute to change clip boards into duct tape and scrap metal and pencils into 5 lead.

Notable quotes

 * "I smell... sedition!"
 * "Stay loyal, citizen!"
 * "Do you know what proletariat means? If so, congratulations, that makes you well read and erudite... for a communist."
 * "Did you know communists have an organ behind their eyes that converts salt water into fresh water... or is that penguins?"
 * "Look out! Communist! False alarm, it was just a plate."
 * "If you haven't found any communists in your backyard, you aren't looking hard enough."

Appearances
The Book Chute appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * The Book Chute mentions that you can get rid of your own sedition with "a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats." This is a reference to 1984, specifically to the scene where Winston was being tortured in a similar fashion in Room 101 of The Ministry of Love.
 * Arguably, the entire premise of the character is based on 1984. Its use is inherently similar to the Memory Holes of the Ministry of Truth.
 * The Book Chute is also likely a reference to the book/movie "Fahrenheit 451," which centered around "Firemen," a group of authorities whose sole purpose was to collect and burn books, which were categorically outlawed as vessels of seditious ideas.
 * The word "proletariat" (a word the Book Chute asks if you know the definition of) is used in Marxist communism to refer to the working class.
 * In The Venture Bros. episode "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic," Dean Venture declares that penguins have a gland above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water. The Book Chute paraphrases this, confusing penguins for communists.