Book Chute

The Book Chute, or Library Processing Unit 232.7, is an automated personality in the Big MT in 2281.

Background
The Book Chute is a mechanical device located in the Sink. Like all the other systems there, 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), he speaks like a dystopian authority, promising to protect citizens from "seditious material," namely pre-War books.

According to his dialogue, he was also supposed to come equipped with an indoctrination module, but it was stripped to suit the R&D budget. He instead instructs the player character in how to perform a form of self-indoctrination, involving a small cage and a sack of mole rats. The Book Chute also dislikes communism, and anything related to it, often commenting on it when the player character is nearby.

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

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 character also makes reference to a form of torture used in later parts of the novel ("a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats.")
 * 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.