Paperback books will now include a “comments section” at the end

“With eBook sales on the decline, it’s obvious that people still love the feeling of a real book in their hands,” said a spokesman from Penguin Random House.

“But that is no reason for us not to keep on pushing the technology of paperbacks. In future every book will feature a comments section at the back, just as on the internet – and every time the book is reprinted we will add new comments.”

Readers are asked to email or send their comments to a special PO box specifically set up for each book.

“It makes a big step forward from when you buy a second hand book and find the previous owner has scrawled some angry ranting notes in the sides of each page,” said the head of technologies at HarperCollins.

“Now those angry ranting comments will be clearly readable at the back of every single book, making the whole literary experience a much richer one.”