The person who posted this four-minute film to YouTube indicates that these 3,000 books were burned in late 2004. The bookstore owner who explains why the books are being burned in a rather spectacular tower that he created for them makes a good case for himself. What do you think? Was he justified in disposing of unwanted stock this way?
And for comparative purposes, here's a short video on the recent book burning in Kansas City that we've previously discussed:
I guess they Scots never heard of recycling...
ReplyDeleteI do have to wonder why they would burn that much paper and why the local government allowed that kind of air pollution to be rather needlessly created.
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