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Give your favorite novel a digital twist with #InternetABook

Lulu Chang
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The ability to transcend time has always been a marker of a true classic, and for some of literature’s finest work, even the dawn of the digital age hasn’t lessened their importance. Sure, we may now read off iPads rather than pages, but the literary masterpieces have remained untouched — well, almost. In one of @Midnight’s most recent #HashtagWars, the show asked the denizens of the great wide Web to #InternetABook. The premise is simple, and the results, hilarious — give classic titles a modern twist by creating tech-related puns. Needless to say, the Internet loved it, and honestly, so did we.

While Tinder is the Night may have a very different plot from the Fitzgerald classic, and 198404 Error just doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as Orwell’s dystopian novel, some of the others definitely sound like page turners.

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#InternetABook

harry potter and the Deathly Follows
harry Potter and the Prisoner of Instagram
harry Potter and the Goblet of Firefox

— HARRY POTTER FACTS (@TheHPFacts) January 12, 2016

All of those. I want to read all of those.

The Devil Wears Java #InternetABook @midnight

— Jaime Lopez (@Lopeezie) January 12, 2016

Yes, he probably does.

No Country For Old Memes #internetabook

— Cyanide and Sugar (@DisneyFreak1138) January 12, 2016

I mean, it’s really not.

#InternetABook Pride and Pinterest

— emy (@emythefangirl) January 12, 2016

Sure, those go hand in hand.

The Fault in Our Code #InternetABook

— Daniel Parsons (@dkparsonswriter) January 12, 2016

Not quite as heartbreaking, but definitely frustrating.

Gulliver's Travelocity #internetabook @midnight pic.twitter.com/W97JEEuaac

— NickG (@sub150run) January 12, 2016

Gulliver would’ve probably appreciated Travelocity.

One Phish
Two Phish
Red Phish
Blue Phish 
#InternetABook 
@midnight

— Queenie (@SinCityChiGirl) January 12, 2016

Give a Browser a Cookie #InternetABook

— Keahu Kahuanui (@KeahuKahuanui) January 12, 2016

Teach kids early.

Charlotte's Deep Web #InternetABook

— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) January 12, 2016

Terrifying.

Schindler's Craigslist
#InternetABook @midnight

— Tyler Morrison (@tylermorrison1) January 12, 2016

What section would this have gone under?

He's Just Not That Into YouTube #InternetABook @midnight #PointsMe

— Kerry Shuck (@KerryShuck) January 12, 2016

He’s not? Dealbreaker.

#internetabook The Old Man and the C++ @midnight

— Holly (@absolutspacegrl) January 12, 2016

Honestly, this might have turned out the same way as the original.

As I Lay Buying
#InternetABook @midnight pic.twitter.com/EaoqgCZI9L

— a total pleb (@PlebianPictures) January 12, 2016

So real.

Oh the places you'll Google
#InternetABook @midnight

— Jeff Dwoskin (@bigmacher) January 12, 2016

You probably had to Google all the places you were going to go to anyway.

The Autocorrections #InternetABook @midnight

— Eric West (@IAmEcw) January 12, 2016

Join in on the fun and see how you can transform your favorite reads when you #InternetABook.

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