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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,728,556 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 85 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,636,953 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 84 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,001,313 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 81 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,316,798 ratings — published 2000
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,430 ratings — published 1949
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 78 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,751,029 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 75 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,208,056 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 73 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,898,468 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,341 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,206,885 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,375 ratings — published 1960
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,572,322 ratings — published 2003
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,298,772 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,844,411 ratings — published 2010
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,592 ratings — published 1813
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,472,493 ratings — published 2005
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,050 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,315 ratings — published 1945
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,257 ratings — published 1988
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,080,053 ratings — published 1955
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,113 ratings — published 1890
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,482 ratings — published 1965
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,112 ratings — published 1996
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,447,480 ratings — published 2000
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,512,509 ratings — published 2015
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,169,555 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,959,585 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,468,196 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,029 ratings — published 1925
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,908,188 ratings — published 2008
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,030,541 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,170,626 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,854 ratings — published 1847
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,273 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,275 ratings — published 2003
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,015,210 ratings — published 1815
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,576 ratings — published 1932
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,064,353 ratings — published 1979
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,300 ratings — published 2018
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,878,419 ratings — published 2023
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,328,941 ratings — published 1811
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,629,179 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,762,133 ratings — published 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,472,822 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,896,517 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,918 ratings — published 2011
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,851,644 ratings — published 2012
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,001,632 ratings — published 2006
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 803,634 ratings — published 1817
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,422,441 ratings — published 2016
“Memang sudah ada sekarang internet, media elektronik, yang jauh lebih cepat dan instan, sebagaimana disinggung pembicara lain tadi, tetapi buku sendiri, meski cara produksinya lambat, jelas tidak pernah akan lenyap.”
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“We got it on file,” Van Dyne said.
Vince could not believe what he had heard. “I thought people in your line of work didn't keep records? Safer for you and essential for your clients.”
Van Dyne shrugged. “Fuck the clients. Maybe one day the feds or the locals hit us, put us out of business. Maybe I find myself needing a steady flow of cash for lawyers' fees. What better than to have a list of a couple of thousand bozos living under phony names, bozos who'd be willing to be squeezed a little rather than have to start all over again with new lives.”
“Blackmail,” Vince said.
“An ugly word,” Van Dyne said. “But apt, I'm afraid. Anyway, all we care about is that we are safe, that there aren't any records here to incriminate us. We don't keep the data in this dump. Soon as we provide someone with a new ID, we transmit the record of it over a safe phone line from the computer here to a computer we keep elsewhere. The way that computer is programmed, the data can't be pulled out of it from here; it's a one-way road; so if we are busted, the police hackers can't reach our records from these machines. Hell, they won't even know the records exist.”
This new high-tech criminal world made Vince woozy. Even the don, a man of infinite criminal cleverness, had thought these people kept no records and had not realized how computers had made it safe to do so”
― Watchers
Vince could not believe what he had heard. “I thought people in your line of work didn't keep records? Safer for you and essential for your clients.”
Van Dyne shrugged. “Fuck the clients. Maybe one day the feds or the locals hit us, put us out of business. Maybe I find myself needing a steady flow of cash for lawyers' fees. What better than to have a list of a couple of thousand bozos living under phony names, bozos who'd be willing to be squeezed a little rather than have to start all over again with new lives.”
“Blackmail,” Vince said.
“An ugly word,” Van Dyne said. “But apt, I'm afraid. Anyway, all we care about is that we are safe, that there aren't any records here to incriminate us. We don't keep the data in this dump. Soon as we provide someone with a new ID, we transmit the record of it over a safe phone line from the computer here to a computer we keep elsewhere. The way that computer is programmed, the data can't be pulled out of it from here; it's a one-way road; so if we are busted, the police hackers can't reach our records from these machines. Hell, they won't even know the records exist.”
This new high-tech criminal world made Vince woozy. Even the don, a man of infinite criminal cleverness, had thought these people kept no records and had not realized how computers had made it safe to do so”
― Watchers