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1. YVoyiatzis · 1790266879 · focus · HN ↗

   Pretty much as it happened with vinyl records twenty years ago. I remember seeing photos of this guy somewhere in Brazil standing atop heaps of vinyl records which he had amassed with HDLR intention. Now books. Some of us hold on forever.

   1. mistercheph · 1790267489 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. ChickeNES · 1790267768 · focus · HN ↗

         "the engine of human progress"? I think you mean capitalism.

         > the books being burned by these misanthropic lunatics are not available in any other medium

         prove it, name one title

         > this is not about fascination with some particular mediumn of transmission

         it very much is. this fetishism of books should really stop, especially when ebooks are more useful, durable, etc.

         1. mistercheph · 1790303998 · focus · HN ↗

            > prove it, name one title

            if they were available, the labs would have purchased them digitally or pirated them

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