Comment by gamerdonkey

> That ain’t a rare book.

Thanks for your opinion. I see you disagree with my first point.

> I would also be shocked if you couldn’t find a way to repair and use this 1966 sewing machine… so it seems like a red herring.

"Repair of the sewing machine is obviously simple and thus left as an exercise to the reader."

Seriously, though, I'm trying to say that you can't make that call for me. You can think that, but I know from experience repairing old machines (with more or less sentimental value) that having the original manual can be the difference between fixing it and irreparably damaging it. I could also, in turn, suppose that you probably do not actually collect and preserve rare "unique artifact" books, and therefore your argument about them is a red herring. But then we would both just be casting aspersions.