If you would permit me changing/hijacking topics temporarily, please do consider compiling all your comments like these (including history and anecdotes on all things Postscript), spread over different forums, hackernews through usenet.
I think I will not be far off, speaking for the community, that many would love to own a copy. If that costs and an arm and a leg, so be it.
Another sidenote, any chance of seeing the usenet archives back ? Was very happy when Google purchased it. Thought we would get a better UI, better indexed presentation ... then it disappeared
You can still access Usenet posts:
For some reason, the book is not well known and the author hates to advertise. But this is truly one of a kind book and deserves all the adulation from us (i own a print version).
The author also co-authored a book about historical and state-of-the-art pi computations called Pi Unleashed (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-56735-3). The code and additional resources are available at https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-56735-3. Though somewhat dated (circa 2000), there’s a lot of fascinating information in the 229 Mb zip download, including a 133 char C program (pitiny.c) that computes 15000 digits of pi.