Book Contempt
Submitted by mwilliams on Sat, 2008-02-09 22:42.Are books held in contempt? Lynn Wienck of The Chisholm Trail Bookstore in Duncan, Oklahoma thinks so. We create art and furniture from them; we recycle them into mulch and fireplace starter; copyright laws restrict the perusal and acquisition of them; and modern day libraries have become recreational centers for anything but reading them. No respect, says Wienck.
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Oh, I don’t know. It’s good that we have ways to reuse books that nobody wants. All books are not sacred, no matter how some book people may feel about them. Most of them being produced today are a waste of paper, in fact, and if we can keep all the Clive Cussler’s of the world out of the landfills, it’s a job well done.
There is no thief like a bad book
--Italian Proverb