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http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burning-period-in-history.html http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-anoth... Libraries aren't museums. They are for use by people who want to read books. It took me a while to internalize this other rule: the median resale of used books is zero dollars. Once upon a time each physical copy of a book was a very rare item that represented hours of physical labor. These days it costs money to get rid of old books. No one is waiting to read my old books.[1] They have sentimental value to me, but when I die the best I can hope for is that my kids get them into the recycle bin instead of the landfill. [1] (Well, I have some of the original Wild Cards novels which are apparently out-of-print.)