But, having some indication of their value, would you have paid to read The Sequences, if that was the only way? I hope you can see that would have been a good choice.

That is a GREAT question. I probably wouldn't have paid more than $40 if a few friends gave it a strong recommendation. For me to pay more than $100, I would have needed an overwhelming number of people I highly respected to have recommended it.

In retrospect, it's difficult to know how much money I think I should have been willing to pay - that is to say, the amount of money I would pay to prevent the information from the Sequences from being deleted from my mind (with no hope of recovery or finding the Sequences again), or from being switched to a timeline in which everything was as similar as possible but I'd never read the Sequences (and would never be able to). My guess is that I would pay something on the order of $50,000-$100,000. I wonder if this is abnormally high.

What would you pay? And adjust for anchoring, if possible.