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What’s meant by “rare” here? It seems like there might be a language barrier thing going on. There’s nothing rare about, say, John Sculley’s autobiography; I can buy it on Amazon new for about $20 or used for about $5.

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Yeah, my thoughts too. Though, I will admit: I have never read a number of these. So, perhaps, the author is more perspicacious than we think.

that's what i was going for. some are genuinely hard to find, others are just great reads that most people haven't come across/read

The one on Word was very, very interesting. Seems like there were a lot of jerks running the Opus project! I checked them out, and at least on of them died in a plane crash, and now has a foundation.

my goal was to add stuff that is hard to find or that most people have never seen or heard of.

i went through a site that aggregated 40k+ book recommendations from hacker news, and the books i added weren't listed there. so i assumed most people hadn't read them and added them.

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...

also happy to remove anything that doesn't serve the purpose of the site.

Here was another great collection of books mentioned on hacker news, tho it looks like it's been down since July '26 (10 years after this Show HN):

https://web.archive.org/web/20260710053316/http://hackernews...

  Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News (hackernewsbooks.com)
  463 points by leandot on Aug 26, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 187 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365693

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