what i was refferring to is doing something like this
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maybe ur first thing would be little smaller first
there are other ideas
like for example u smokers.. u can cut the book in the middle, and put some kind of isolation between the papers and cigarettes - maybe wood..aluminum stuff
this will make a cool geeky ashtray
the book has to be small.. but relatively lot of pages
other small books could be used for beer related stuff maybe
will post some ideas later