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Unless you’re keeping it for yourself…

The one person I know who did this kept it for themselves.

If only for the UI. Back then, all bring white and beige and Windows blue screenofdesthblye. Be OS was pure joy, if only to play around with. Many third-party developers (remember sharewsre) took s liking to the Be aesthetic and ran away with it.

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.


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"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.


> prove it, name one title

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


This reminds me of a funky Windows screensaver, back in the day. Pretty cool.


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