[ SECRET POST #3538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3538 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Banned Books

[(Anonymous)]

No. Made into retaining walls for gardens, or papier mâché, or folded/carved book art (especially book art that runs counter to nasty prejudiced or exploitative arguments), or paper flowers, or something else useful or beautiful, sure. Or kept for study. But banned? There are a lot of books out there that wouldn't have generated nearly so much interest if they weren't banned first. Banning doesn't work.

Re: Banned Books

[thelesbianfuturist]

Actually, this comment makes me wonder, are you OK with burning books?

Re: Banned Books

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not really? Unless you were stuck in a library or bookstore in a nasty snowstorm with no heat or power and a serious risk of freezing to death and nothing else to burn. I'm okay with making nice or useful things out of books, though.

I work in a library, and we get so many books donated and weed our collection so often that we recycle and throw away tons of books every week that we can't sell or add to our collection or donate elsewhere.

There's no value judgement attached, we just don't have the space to keep or store everything. So anything that hasn't circulated for years, anything that's falling apart and can't be replaced... we get rid of it. Basically, book burning as a symbolic rejection of ideas bothers me; book burning as a serious effort to wipe specific books from existence is horrifying, book burning as "damn we're out of landfill space" is a waste, and book burning as "I can't feel my toes or fingers" could be a tragic necessity.