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by sneak 762 days ago
Burning books certainly doesn’t have the connotation it used to, given that the idea of a book is now mostly divorced from the physical implementation.

You could burn every physical copy of most recent books and no data would be lost; I assume most authors write with a word processor.

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Given all the DRM and other shenanigans implemented on ebooks, I'm not sure that's true anymore.
Yeah, right, until they start rewriting classics, because they don’t fit in today's agenda.