Hardcopy Books
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,622,422 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 84 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,585,704 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 80 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,950,161 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 79 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,278,034 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 78 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,720,651 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 74 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,175,093 ratings — published 2007
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,623,857 ratings — published 1948
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 72 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,865,990 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,546,059 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,108,200 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,011,727 ratings — published 1960
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,557,630 ratings — published 2003
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,916,238 ratings — published 1813
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,252,134 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,804,230 ratings — published 2010
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,419,027 ratings — published 2005
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,201,675 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,688,055 ratings — published 1945
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,670,402 ratings — published 1965
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,667,310 ratings — published 1988
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,943,619 ratings — published 1890
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,777,615 ratings — published 1996
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,431,101 ratings — published 2000
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,067,671 ratings — published 1955
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,155,635 ratings — published 1954
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,438,339 ratings — published 2011
Eclipse (Crepúsculo, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,018,983 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,157,030 ratings — published 2006
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,413,549 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,933,357 ratings — published 2005
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,897,034 ratings — published 2008
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,004,811 ratings — published 1815
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,036,793 ratings — published 1925
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,234,015 ratings — published 1847
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,491,180 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,554,553 ratings — published 2003
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,048,244 ratings — published 1979
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,117,845 ratings — published 1932
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,317,647 ratings — published 1811
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,367,549 ratings — published 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,717,321 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 — 1,452,176 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,392 ratings — published 2011
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,807,855 ratings — published 2012
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 795,167 ratings — published 1817
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.17 — 603,603 ratings — published 2011
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 32 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.26 — 996,967 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,956,677 ratings — published 1951
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,567,895 ratings — published 2020
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hardcopy)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,504,883 ratings — published 1868
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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
