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I think this would be more interesting to our Jewish friends. It’s a longer piece about a Jewish bookstore and the trade in older Jewish books. Longer read.
https://mishpacha.com/the-fine-print-2/
Great article.
It seems unfortunate, in a grand sense, that so many rare books are sold without being scanned and uploaded to libgen and friends though. For every person who found exactly the book they're looking for at that shop, probably a five more didn't because they weren't there. And even if that'd undermine the financial self-interest that drives people to collect the books initially, there'd be no deadweight loss if the books were scanned but kept private for however many decades.
Which also brings to mind - there are many who find fulfillment in professions that are, in a fundamental sense, obsolete. It seems to me that this is, somehow, wrong - it's better to push at, and likely fail at, the frontier, instead of lingering in the dust, enjoying oneself. The former is tougher, and more interesting too, imo - and simultaneously materially benefits all more. But it seems likely that technology, AI, etc will consign us all to the latter in time.
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