• @[email protected]
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    201 month ago

    I read an old book, and it didn’t need batteries, nor had it microtransactions, nor advertisements, nor did it need updates. Worst of all, I got it for free at my local library. The terror!

    • GHiLA
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      71 month ago

      Trump: “lol, you mean you used to.”

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I always enjoyed the ads in some youth books, like the “one chapter teaser” of the next adventure in the local translation of “Famous Five” by Blyton

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        11 month ago

        Yeah, but those X-Ray Specs worked about as well as anything bought from an Ad thase days

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          11 month ago

          We never had that kind of ads in our books, they came in catalogues I sadly never got to order from even if the "make your own radio"kit with crystal always looked awesome

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            31 month ago

            Those radio kits with the crystals actually worked, I remember building one with my pa. I forget the principle behind them

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      11 month ago

      Ha! I used to do that, too. They also had video tapes at mine, and audio. You could do all sorts of things there. It was publically funded, as it should.