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For those interested in a combined pdf of court docs related to Epstein and Ghislaine, along with the full black book, you can check them out here before they inevitably disappear:
COMBINED COURT DOCS: https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf
BLACK BOOK: https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/9/mode/2up
Originally Posted By u/Shim-Slady At 2025-07-16 11:09:28 AM | Source
Serious question:
This appears to be a scan of a printed book. Why would anyone make a hard copy of this sort of document? If you wanted to add an entry you'd have to reprint the entire thing.
It probably was an active document started as early as the 1970s and that's just a way to do it. Had to be paper they didn't have anything else. Take note cards, write (Or typewrite, or print) the info on them, paste them into a book. Remove old cards as they need to be updated. Easier to package vs a rolodex. Even into the 2000s, old habits die hard and it is easier to maintain security of a single physical copy.
Yeah, I wasn't giving enough credit to how far back this goes. I think this version was supposed to be scanned in 2005, so I was thinking of it as a 2005 document.
I remember how frustrating it was for my dad to maintain a list of contact info. He had many different versions and they all had different information and different omissions.
I was only a kid so I didn't understand how big a deal it was, but I distinctly remember "mail merge" being advertised as a 'killer feature' of word processing software back in the early '90s.
Funny enough I have a pretty advanced typewriter with many word processor functions from the 90s. It has mail merge, believe it or not. I found it in front of someone's house on large trash day and bought new ribbons for it.
Only thing I couldn't get to work is the floppy drive, but it is super neat watching it print out what I've typed on the tiny screen into two columns.