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dredmorbius on May 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf]

Berry has stuck to his guns:

"Why Wendell Berry is still not going to buy a computer" (2019)

<https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2019/0418/Why-Wendell-B...>

(From an earlier HN discussion, thanks Jtsummers for linking: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883115>.)

greenie_beans on May 4, 2025 [–]

i worked at a well known bookstore and the owner invited him to a reading, but he turned down with a hand written letter basically saying: "your bookstore seems nice but i never leave my farm and don't want to for a reading"

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