This clock runs on the MagTag and displays the time using quotes from books. Nearly every minute of the day has one or more quotes to choose from. The clock updates once per minute to display a quote that references the current time. The most relevant portion of the quote, the bit that references the current time, is rendered with outlined font to make it easier to find at a glance.

The inspiration for this project was this Literary Clock made from an E-reader posted on Instructables by tjaap. There is also a website version of it created by Johannes Enevoldsen. All of them were made possible by an initiative from The Guardian, who crowd sourced the quotes by asking their readers to find and submit them.

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