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To: Jamestown1630

Libraries have discarded their old texts in America. Rather than fill multiple branches with specialized focus, they’d rather dump the books they don’t agree with, have half empty shelves, and stock the book of the month club selections picked by Oprah Winfrey.


19 posted on 12/27/2019 6:51:41 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: a fool in paradise

I know. I worked in public libraries in the 1970s, and they were already discarding classics to make room for the latest best-selling potboiler.

But, we have the Internet, now - until they decide to censor it, and take all of the good old stuff off of Gutenberg, archive.org, etc. ;-)


27 posted on 12/27/2019 7:00:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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