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My daughter got this book for herself. I'm curious to see if she can actually bring herself to tear it up, since she's been taught to respect books the same way I do.
I think it's an interesting concept. Normally I would like to see a book kept for as long as possible but if the instructions say to wreck it then so be it. Other than all of the stuff inside dedicated to the destruction of the book and the pages therein there is't anything really useful or entertaining in there. Besides that, people would doodle and do things to other books if they are bored enough so why not have a special place for them to do that?
I've never run across this book in almost 20 years of bookselling lol. But...when you're a bookseller, you have the unhappy painful duty of stripping paperbacks and magazines on a monthly basis for returns to the publishers. So it seems wasteful to me, to create a book specifically for destruction. I remember my first time stripping a book, thinking there had to be someone somewhere, who would want this book!
My daughter got this "book" as a gift. It is really just a novelty/project sort of thing. We had a lot of fun with it over the holidays as it sat around and everyone took a stab at it - literally in some cases.
On one page you were to add white things to the page. She plucked some of her Dad's abundant supply of white hairs and taped them to the page.
On the contrary, I think about half the books in the world ought to be burned for fuel or mulched for agriculture. I arrived at this conclusion after helping my stepdaughter move four times, every time moving the same six boxes of books, none of them having been opened between moves.
In the average library, I bet 80% of the books will never, ever be opened again until the end of time. Books on overstock tables might get sold, but the buyer (or gift recipient) will probably page through it for a minute or two, then never open it again. Think how many tons and tons of books there are explaining how to do things on computers that don't even exist anymore, or other technical or how-to books for obsolete processes. There are entire skyscrapers packed tight with books that will never again be opened. JFK was shot from one. Used book stores are full of books that will never be sold or read.
Magazines get shredded, newspapers get turned into insulation and egg cartons. What make books more sacred? Maybe books ought to be printed with temporary ink that starts to fade after a few years, and in a decade, the pages are plain white. To be used for personal journals, or scratch paper, or scrabble score pads.
you advocate the burning of books, that books should be temporary, how about history books jtur88?
I've never seen this book. I've seen similar ones, though. I was given one as a young teen, but gave it away.
I think the concept is okay for those who really are intimidated by a blank page.
Me? I buy those school notebooks when they go on sale just before school starts... usually 10 - $1.00! I write my journals in some and my poetry in others. The journals get destroyed eventually, while the poetry gets added to my growing online files. I do tend to hold on to my poetry notebooks, but that is ONLY because there are poems in each of them that have never been typed out.
I don't feel bad destroying something I paid a dime for... 13 bucks? Hmmm.
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