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I read this book on an iPod because Doctorow releases the vast majority of his work freely, so I could just upload a text file to my clickwheel. Weird, but awesome.

The book itself is great too. I still think about a lot of the concepts to this day.

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Ha, I had completely forgotten this was a thing I used to do. Thanks for bringing back good memories of scrolling through .txt files. It might sound tedious to those who never tried it, but the Clickwheel was a genuine pleasure to use for so many things. I still miss it to this day.

Obligatory repost of this 2009 gem:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA

My wife and I will still chuckle over that Onion video to this day. I had sent it to her back in the day just to share a laugh, but due to its insanely high production value she bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Her reaction was "Wow, I can't believe they just got rid of the keyboard, this is gonna be huge".

Me too! Read a few of his books on a Nano. I had several people ask me about what I was doing with my Nano.

Was a small screen, but workable at the time.

I used iPad note format to read my copy.

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