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A comment on When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016).

Re:When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist... by bbarnett on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:48AM (#41300587)
Before ebooks, a bunch of friends and I used to memorize the full contents of a book, each. We'd then destroy the books.
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Re:When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist... by nervysnail on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:35AM (#41300997)
Were they radical political books? Erotica?
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Re:When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist... by bombcar on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @12:03PM (#41301256)
Statistically the most likely book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar which most children memorize and then destroy.
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