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Comment by robinhouston | Hacker News Reader

If you enjoyed this, I am sure you will enjoy Rota’s funny and charming book _Indiscrete Thoughts_. It includes this essay, together with many others.

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It may be funny and charming but Amazon wants $105 for it (or $35 to rent the ebook) and it's nowhere to be found in my statewide library system.

wow.

if you're the type of ruthless criminal who would commit horrific crimes like downloading a car, your diseased conscience may enable you to use pirate websites like library genesis to get it for free.

Um... am I missing something? Legalities aside, how does one download a car? Is that actually a thing?

It's a reference to this old PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pYiWGSN8w

Related IT Crowd bit

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg

If it were, I would

no one will ever be able to convince me that i should feel bad for using https://libgen.is/

I said you would enjoy it, not that you would be able to afford to buy it. :-)

I would guess that quite a few HN readers are in the happy position of being able to spend $105 on an interesting book without suffering financial hardship as a result.

That's just how much Amazon thinks you will enjoy it. I mean, if something is that enjoyable, surely it's worth a higher monetary price tag? It's a luxury read.

Open library has it. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22471553M/Indiscrete_thought...

Or use the direct link https://archive.org/details/indiscretethough0000rota/ (I am happy to know this book is not in the 500,000+ books we have lost access to)

Thank you for suggesting it!

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