That frozen clock at 3:47 sounds like the perfect little time capsule, glad it shifted your focus to the overlooked stuff.

Dead on page 214 and then just back walking around like nothing happened? That's wild, you'd think someone would've caught that in editing at least once. Sounds like the author straight up ghosted their own outline, honestly some editors really need to earn their paycheck.

That clicking noise gave me flashbacks to my old Creative Zen when the drive gave up. I actually swapped in a compact flash card with an adapter and it worked for years after, honestly not that hard of a project if you're okay with a little tinkering. But yeah, if you're not into opening it up, some tech is just meant to be a good memory.