What better way to show your contempt for the mail-order set of "classics" on your bookshelf than burning through their hearts with a Lightsaber? After all, if you're never going to read Moby Dick or Ulysses, you might at least make them useful.

Now you can, with the glowing Lightsaber book-ends from the Star Wars shop. The Lightsaber doesn't really spear through the books, although judging from the photos it does turn at least part of them into a clammy mess of scrambled egg. That's not quite fair: the photos show a prototype, so the final shipping version should look (hopefully) a little more like molten metal, and the light part will glow via battery-powered lamps.

No amount of the Force will help you keep track of your place in the books however. Now, at least, you can say "This is not the page I'm looking for." $50, ships March 31st. Move along.

Exclusive Illuminated Lightsaber Bookends [Star Wars Shop. Thanks, Jon!]

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