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Store Owners Burn Books In Protest
KCTV 5 ^ | September 3, 2007 | Unknown

Posted on 09/03/2007 2:27:31 PM PDT by decimon

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To: tanuki

” I’ve heard of burning books to prevent people from reading them, but burning books because people won’t read them-well, that’s a new one “

I suppose it’s better than burning people because they won’t read your book.

Don’t anybody give that idea to the libs, OK?


21 posted on 09/03/2007 3:13:52 PM PDT by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: nwrep
It is not like these hicks in Kansas went and burned the collection of Renaissance paintings in Europe or something.

Have a lot of respect and reverance for Europe, have you?

22 posted on 09/03/2007 3:18:33 PM PDT by humblegunner (©)
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To: uglybiker

D*mn that’s funny!


23 posted on 09/03/2007 3:20:47 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: decimon; MurryMom
...saying it would burn the books if no one wanted them.

No one needs liberals but we don't go around burning them - yet.

24 posted on 09/03/2007 3:21:09 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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To: decimon

Not one book in a hundred is worth the time to read, but likely the burnt books included not one volume from Don Quixote’s library.


25 posted on 09/03/2007 3:22:26 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Humble Servant

OMG! I feel all crispy, already! LOL!


26 posted on 09/03/2007 3:22:51 PM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: decimon
It was practice to remove the front covers from the unsold books before discarding them. That practice was to prevent the books being retrieved from the trash to be sold.

Booksellers remove the front covers and return them to the publisher to get a full refund of the price they paid for them, listing them as unsold and destroyed. It's cheaper than paying the full cost of returning the much heavier whole book. They are supposed to have been destroyed in the agreement the bookseller made with the publisher for disposal of unsold inventory.

27 posted on 09/03/2007 3:23:53 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: durasell
I see nothing wrong with burning these books. Most contemporary books are unreadable and poorly written, mirroring the decline in the English language over the past half century

Stopped in Barnes and Noble today to pick up a couple books for daughter's English class. They have a whole wall of an odd product they call "graphic novels." Turns out, they are comic books bound like pulp paperbacks. Large pictures and childish dialog...If I was reduced to selling this kind of drivel I'd burn it too.

28 posted on 09/03/2007 3:26:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: FreedomCalls
They are supposed to have been destroyed in the agreement the bookseller made with the publisher for disposal of unsold inventory.

Trust me, that would be the least of crimes I witnessed at JFK Airport. Daily.

29 posted on 09/03/2007 3:30:31 PM PDT by decimon
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Shame they decided to burn books.

I recently bought text books for a student at the local community college.

Human Anatomy, New 166.77 Used 145.12.

Human Physiology, New 167.35 Used 144.20.

The class had limited number of students and the professor demanded current edition 2007 books.

The cost of education especially book prices have absolutely gone over the top.

30 posted on 09/03/2007 3:50:48 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: decimon
Shame they decided to burn books.

I recently bought text books for a student at the local community college.

Human Anatomy, New 166.77 Used 145.12.

Human Physiology, New 167.35 Used 144.20.

The class had limited number of students and the professor demanded current edition 2007 books.

The cost of education especially book prices have absolutely gone over the top.

31 posted on 09/03/2007 3:50:48 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: decimon

Check out the guy’s website. He sells very little I would be interested in.


32 posted on 09/03/2007 4:16:21 PM PDT by ikka
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To: Humble Servant; rovenstinez; Tijeras_Slim
Some other burned titles...

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33 posted on 09/03/2007 4:28:11 PM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: decimon
Prospero's has publicized for months that it was looking for a good home for thousands of books, and saying it would burn the books if no one wanted them.

I'm doing my part:


34 posted on 09/03/2007 4:33:12 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist

Never thought of using books to shore up my roof. Thanks.


35 posted on 09/03/2007 4:37:06 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon


Did they burn this book?
36 posted on 09/03/2007 4:41:39 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
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