plarq
Crazy forever
The only books I burn is advertisement sheets and yellowpages.
Burning books - yay or nay?
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Wolfbeckett
Jerkin' and nonsense.
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As others have said, just give them to a local library or, hell, give them away on Craigslist or something. Put them in a box on the curb with a sign that says "free books". Someone will take them.
Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
Burn ALL the books.
Burn ALL the books.
Mao Zedong: "Qin Shi Huang buried 400 scholars alive. We've buried 40,000. So please don't compare us to him; we've outdone him a thousandfold."
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
Due to the widespread aversion to burning books I can foresee a day when the planet Earth is nothing but books.
But no because Amazon Kindle and Audacity.
Seriously who even uses printed books anymore? Even universities will teach you that text books are already obsolete as soon as they are printed because there is newer research in online journals. You can use text books for revision, but not as sources for your essays / assignments.
Any university that doesn't follow this principle is a bad university.
As for your normal printed novels and other such books, again kindle.
But I want to see pictures of amazing exotic animals - Youtube. Why settle for mere pictures when youtube is crammed full of free user made to professional HD videos?
Burn all the books, and ban printing more. If only to save trees.
I have several thousand books. I'm planning on pruning some of them from the collection, but they will either be sold to a second-hand store, donated to the library, or given away on Freecycle. Any left over from the 'get rid of' pile after all that, will be turned into craft projects.
What do you do with them? Just throw them away?
What will people do if/when there isn't any electricity and they run out of batteries?
Several years ago I was trying to find an unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I wasn't having much luck, and was nearly resigned to downloading a French version from Project Gutenberg when the local secondhand bookseller I deal with called and said she'd got a copy in. That book is still on my bookshelf, waiting for the day when I'm in the right mindset to enjoy it.
That said, the inspiration for my interest in it was a computer game...
My Kindle would burn with them. When the fire alarm goes off around here, saving my Kindle isn't remotely on my list of what to do.
A lot of my books are not, and never will be, available on Kindle.
Borachio
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Because ~£10k for each house is a lot of money?
It doesn't always pay to be an early adopter of a comparatively new technology. I'm waiting until solar panels are as cheap as roof tiles.
I'll let you know when I figure out what to do with them.
They're still sitting on bookshelves, in boxes, etc.As for ebook readers, my wonderful wife gave me a Nook as a gift a few years ago, I've bought maybe twenty books for it, and I think two dead-tree books in the same time. Now that they got the Nook app running on Android and Windows, the only reason to get a paper book is if I'm planning on lending or giving it to friends/family/colleagues.
Yea but then you get free electricity!
It would be awesome if they got cheaper though.
I'll let you know when I figure out what to do with them.
If they're obsolete technical books that you're sure no one could find a use for, you could maybe throw them in with the paper recycles. If you aren't sure if no one could have a use for them, you could donate them, and let the people there decide if they are of any value.
http://www.pickupplease.org/donate-books?gclid=CNWN49PH7cECFaFr7AodlSoAyA
http://www.donationtown.org/new-hampshire-donation-pickup/
http://www.ehow.com/how_8186933_donate-books-new-hampshire.html
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
Burning books saves trees? Huh. Anyway excuse, I'm reading a real book and want to get back to it.
Books are just objects, not holy relics. Having some instinctive revulsion to burning a book really makes no sense. It is the reason behind why they are being burned that should or should not be a cause of alarm.
I mean, suppose a publishing company has a big goof up and accidentally prints a million extra copies of the latest Harlequin romance of the month book. Are you guys really going to be morally outraged ( at the idea of burning books... ignore environmental reasons here please) if they realize the most economical thing to do is ship off the extras to an incinerator and perform a mass burning?
I mean, suppose a publishing company has a big goof up and accidentally prints a million extra copies of the latest Harlequin romance of the month book. Are you guys really going to be morally outraged ( at the idea of burning books... ignore environmental reasons here please) if they realize the most economical thing to do is ship off the extras to an incinerator and perform a mass burning?
