Okay, I think it's time to stir up the pot again. Here's some more possibilities to consider, now that we know it's "AE" in some way.
Wikipedia says it's used as "Age at death".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
So maybe it's a play on the death of paper books, and the date is to be filled in later!?
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Æ as abbreviation
Æ and æ were quite commonly used as abbreviations for Latin aetate or aetate sua meaning, roughly, "at the age of" N years (the implied construction being an ablative absolute); also the genitive aetatis suae, Nth year "of his/her age". In inscriptions and records, the most common use is for the age at death.
George William Russell, the fin de siècle Irish poet, signed himself Æ meaning "Æon".
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Interestingly, Aeon was the name used for this cool phone...
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/1...phone-concept/
Or from these vast lists, maybe it's "Analog Electronics" or paper "Alter Ego"...
http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=AE
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?acronym=AE
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/AE
Or if you look at this page,
http://www.aescir.net/bfi/bfi_lucid.htm
it says that Æ is "a symbol for 'consciousness'"
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The word "Æther" is an ancient Alchemy term originally used to name the underlying conscious fabric of the universe. It provides one of the two roots for our new word. The first syllable of Æther (Æ, used as a symbol for "consciousness"), combined with "scir" (the root word of "science"), gives us Æ + scir: Æscir(tm), science of consciousness. The Æ character is pronounced the same as the "short e" in "best"; the word is pronounced "esher". Then we build on Æscir to get a full set of descriptive terms regarding our world-view and its applications.
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