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Bookstore Owner Burns Books

Posted by kdawson on from the you'll-never-see-this-book-alive-again dept.

Several readers sent us links to an AP story about a pair of Kansas City booksellers who staged a book bonfire, claiming to protest declining literacy. The story doesn't convey a sure sense of the booksellers' motives for what could, in fact, be a PR stunt or a subtle act of extortion against book lovers — it does mention that people were buying books out of the piles awaiting immolation. The bookstore's own site tries to sound sincere, but it offers visitors a chance to save books from the flames for $1 each plus postage.

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  1. won't RTFA by digitalderbs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn't be bothered to read TFA... what's this about?

    1. Re:won't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Disposal issues with legacy media platforms.

    2. Re:won't RTFA by setirw · · Score: 5, Funny

      lol i dunno sumting abot pore liturcy in the us lol!!1

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    3. Re:won't RTFA by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Firefighters are underemployed as there are fewer books to burn these days.

  2. Wonder what books they burned... by setirw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd guess Fahrenheit 451.

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  3. Did he buy his carbon offsets? by Ngarrang · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did he buy his carbon offsets for the burning of these books?

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  4. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    i just got done righting a book you insensitive moran

  5. Sounds cool. by rampant+mac · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...who staged a book bonfire, claiming to protest declining literacy.

    Yeah, that helps. I'm going to shoot some people and scream at the top of my lungs about gun safety.

    Es brennt!

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  6. Fuel for the fire? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...but it offers visitors a chance to save books from the flames for $1 each plus postage...

    How much to donate books? I can get my hands on few by Ann Coulter :-)

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  7. Re:Books are re-usable commodities. by samwichse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code

    Now there is a book I'd like to read!

    Sam
  8. Re:So what? by Bugs42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    i just got done righting a book you insensitive moran My last name is Moran, you insensitive clod!
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  9. Re:I heard of a French wine boycott a few years ag by iggymanz · · Score: 3, Funny

    and thereafter the sewer had a nutty, currant and chocolate bouquet while still expressing a good turdy nose.

  10. Re:So what? by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    My last name is Clod, you insensitive... agh, forget it.