“My Hard-Drive Died Along With My Heart [...] explores people’s relationship with hard-drives and what emotions people get after the trust is broken. The book contains a collection of online forum and twitter posts [from 1994 to 2016] on the topic. As a society we always seem to be looking for a new technical solution for knowledge and information storage and for this, we hope there is one magic, final solution that will solve every issue. But easy solutions create their own problems. The perceived view of the stable nature of digital information differs from reality” (blurb on Lulu).

The tweets, mostly quite emotional, are set in white on a black background and are reminiscent of an obituary, while the longer forum posts often include requests for help and technical details. Sources are provided for all quotations. The title of the book also comes from a tweet.

In addition, the artist has edited a five-minute video of footage of people talking online about the data loss they experience after their devices fail. According to the opening credits, they go through five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.