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Books Are Burning in Kansas City

CNN reports that Tom Wayne, the owner of Prospero's Books in Kansas City, MO, held a book-burning over the holiday weekend...a rather odd thing for a bookseller to be doing:

Tom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books....But when he wanted to thin out the collection, he found he couldn't even give away books to libraries or thrift shops; they said they were full.

So on Sunday, Wayne began burning his books in protest of what he sees as society's diminishing support for the printed word.

As a Google-phile might say, if it's digitized, it can't be burned. (Or burning the print version makes little difference.) It becomes more an issue of server space, not shelf space.

Y'all know where I'm headed with this one, so I'll just let it go at that.
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