But it has been so badly served by administrators' bloating the itinerary and so thoroughly eclipsed by a flashier, even more ephemerally enjoyable format that a failure to excite this time will just about render it redundant.
Nicholls, who has both written adaptations of classic novels for television and cinema, and written screenplays for his own novels including Starter for 10, starring James McAvoy and Rebecca Hall, and One Day, starring Anne Hathaway, feels that the "shrinking" process that a book undergoes for film need not render it redundant to readers.
This is said to be owing to sighted teachers who believe computer technology, and in particular synthesised speech, has rendered it redundant.
The satire is off the leash in the US-set Super Sad True Love Story, which takes place in that very perilous territory for a novelist, the near future (the danger being that in 10 years' time no one will bother to read your novel because events will have rendered it redundant or ridiculous).
Even if the police know full well who the rider is and where the bike has come from, a covered face or an obscured registration plate can render it completely redundant as part of a prosecution.
Even if the police know full well who the rider is, and where the bike has come from, a covered face or an obscured registration plate can render it completely redundant as part of a prosecution.
The Labour peer Lord Hattersley was in Dublin last week, and told the Irish Times that while the Seanad had produced many figures of consequence (as has the Lords), its undemocratic nature renders it effectively redundant.
Some of it sticks around, some of it mutates and matures down the years, some of it is rendered redundant, some of it dissipates entirely.
If this worked, it would render redundant most of the laborious alternative techniques on which the public program was based, not to mention its payroll of thousands of employees.
Gibson believes these fears are overblown: "This does not, as some journalists fear, render our expertise redundant but it encourages other people to get involved and have their say.
But as we digitise our texts do we not render them redundant?
