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by schoen 2826 days ago
It's funny to think that there have been randomly-generated books that readers considered to have value -- like the RAND million random digits book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1...

I'm also thinking that a couple of the Oulipo works (perhaps some of those by François Le Lionnais?) had randomly generated contents -- within schemata or grammars created by the authors, of course.

But I guess this is the exception rather than the rule.