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"The answer to the problem of information overload on the Net is reputations… engineer a system called a reputation server."
- Neal Stephenson

E-paper Hologram  
  A cover image that really pops out at the viewer.  

Without thinking, Kaye turned right and found herself in the religious section. Most of the shelves were filled with brightly colored apocalypse novels. The E-paper holograms leaped from lurid covers as she passed: endtime, rapture, revelation, demons and dark angels.
From Darwin's Children, by Greg Bear.
Published by Del Rey in 2003
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