Book Chute

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

Book Chute is an automated personality computer in The Sink at Big MT.

Background
The Book Chute is a mechanical device that is located in The Sink. Like all 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.

Quests

 * All My Friends Have Off Switches: Book Chute is one of the appliances you have to upgrade.
 * Influencing People: An upgrade holotape fot the Book Chute must be found and installed.

Other interactions

 * The Book Chute converts old books into blank books at a one for one exchange. 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 will need to acquire the recipe holotape (which unfortunately are single use items) for the skillbook they wish to assemble, as well as 25 blank books and two bottles of wonderglue.

The four types of clipboard it accepts are:
 * The mulching upgrade allows the Book Chute to breakdown any clipboard into 1 duct tape and 1 scrap metal. In addition it will also breakdown pencils into 5 lead for each turned in.

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?"
 * "Lookout! Communist! No, false alarm. It was just a plate."
 * "If you haven't found any communists in your backyard, you aren't looking hard enough."
 * "The Commies have eyes everywhere, but that doesn't just mean they're Commies. They're Peeping Toms."
 * "Blank books are better for the mind citizen"

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

Behind the scenes

 * As an Easter egg, the Book Chute tells you 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 an homage 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/film 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.
 * Many quotes from the chute are very similar to language used in the "Paranoia" RPG, which is rife with allusions to a nonexistent commie traitor threat.