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ChickeNES 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as boo...

"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.

mistercheph 25 days ago [–]

> prove it, name one title

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

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