Who has seen it and what's your opinion?

Got it ready to watch but in the middle of a set of shifts and want to savour it. I hope it's worth it.

I've not seen the show but I do have one thought:

So how do you make a premise relevant to modern day audiences that involves the burning of physical books? With e-books/e-readers being so prevalent in modern society, how does it make sense that a totalitarian government can maintain total control over knowledge by simply burning books?

Books are not as easy as digital files to destroy.

OK you can burn a book.....but you have to find it first. Want to destroy a book on kindle? Send a command and its gone. From all kindles. Boom.

I offer one example from 2009 that stuck in my mind...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

You make some good points Khai but does this new show portray the destruction of digital books or just physical books like in the original film from the 1960's? That's really the point I'm bringing up.

Isn't Animal Farm public domain by now? In fact has been for ~18 years or so?

Not under UK law..... Its death plus 70 years... Comes out of Copyright in 2020.... (Orwell died 1950)

Only seen the trailers myself so far, and they show books.... Guessing at the very least they are using books to hide content off the networks.... (which would make very good sense.....)

You burn the physical books and then only the digital files remain.
All books (the titles themselves) will never be digitized, some are too obscure or mundane or "troubling" to be considered worthy.
Second, once digitized the text can easily be "made more relevant" for our time or "less problematic". So without the original hard copy, over time a reader wont know if they are really reading Mark Twain or just the "safe/relevant" version.
And finally, eventually the formats will change and even more titles will be lost or forgotten etc.

So I think Fahrenheit 451 is more relevant today than when it was written.