After a quarrel with his girlfriend, who is not too sympathetic to his passion for literature, teacher Wesley Smith buys a Kindle, an electronic reader - either out of pure whim, or with the goal of proving something to someone. But pretty soon he discovers that the device is equipped with atypical additional functions, for example... access to electronic libraries of parallel worlds, where Ernest Hemingway became famous as the author of hard-boiled detective stories, and Shakespeare wrote two more plays than in our reality. What other surprises will it bring? Wesley his pink Kindle? And will they all be pleasant?