Troll Thread co-founder Joey Yearous-Algozin created DEMO BOOK FOR INTERN in 2015 to show Troll Thread’s intern how to make a print-on-demand book. It also demonstrates the collective’s general poetic approach to working with found material from the internet by including the text “IBM System 360 RPG Debugging Template and Keypunch Card” as found freely accessible on Project Gutenberg.

This text was copied to a US letter format template and auto-formatted, as were the disclaimer and meta-text, including all source formatting. The resulting twenty-four pages were then copied twenty-eight times to come as close as possible to the maximum number of pages for this format on Lulu. The book contains obscure line breaks, deformed links, and cut-off images, revealing the fundamental differences between web and print text design. It also shows that text on Project Gutenberg is not truly free, as more than half of the copied text is taken up by a copyright disclaimer.

The book must have served its purpose, since the intern then went on to make a print-on-demand publication for Troll Thread called INTERN.