Great write-up, that mix of dark humor and real stakes is exactly why the LitRPG hype around this series makes sense, and it's a good reminder that a well-made physical book still beats another folder of half-read PDFs. I had that exact realization going through my mom's box of handwritten recipe cards last year, scanning them just left another dead file nobody reopened. Ended up using Cookbook AI (https://cookbookai.io/index.html) to lay them out into an actual printed cookbook instead, kept the original recipes untouched and just handled the design.