The sentences seem to have the same amount of information and relevance even with half the words gone...

This thing is _begging_ for a Steampunk creation.
Have a tiny screen tastefully integrated, with a fold out Fresnel lens like in the movie "Brazil".

Totally, totally über cool release - havent read this in almost a decade - thanks muchly!

I'm 98% sure that this text includes both books "Time of the Dragons" and "Last of the Zinja", can anyone confirm this?

The guy is definitely quite old (*), he learnt to do this at a time when you HAD to wind your own filaments - and you were happy about it! :)
I guess nobody learns this complete skill set today

(*) Old = Look at the hands, but also the guy's homepage, in French, http://paillard.claude.free.fr/, he became ham-operator "F2FO" in 1959, radio geek amongst others re-creating radios from the 1920s

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaillard.claude.free.fr%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

>>Who lives here? What do they do? Why is that book on the table? Is that significant? Could it be some kind of clue to the occupant’s identity?

I know someone who worked at Ikea as a decorator/set designer. She said they have to write a little storybook to go with each sample room it, describing the person living in it, such as "15 year old, likes computers, reads BoingBoing" or "Single mom, age 32, 1 kid". They then build the room around that for more realism, also providing other designers with info for future work.