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Jazuela · 10-29-2009, 12:41 PM

If they're banned, then, by definition of the word "banned" they're not carried. If it's in the library, then the library hasn't banned it. Otherwise, y'know, it wouldn't be there. Because it would be banned, and all. Banned by whom? I mean..there are exploitive porn magazines that our library doesn't carry - so yeah those are banned. I think that's just fine. I also think that pornographic slasher movies being banned is fine. Catcher in the Rye? They have it in paperback and hardcover, and if you can't find a copy of it, they'll requisition it from another branch or another town in the co-op.

Books that are famous (or infamous) for being on "banned lists" - our library has most of them, but really, some of them just never attracted enough interest for them to bother getting it, or replacing a copy if it was never returned/damaged beyond repair. I think they only have Lady Chatterly's Lover in hardcover in a section for classics. The New York City public library, I imagine, would have a few of each of those "banned lists" books kicking around. Modern electronic virtual e-"libraries of the future" will never replace the smell, feel, sight, of books, or even the sound of old paper when you turn the page, or the gentle creak of the binding of an enormous tome, such as Shakespeare's Complete Works. There's something sacreligious about the idea of reading Hunter S Thompson online, and not in a book. It's just wrong.

10-29-2009, 12:41 PM	#12
Jazuela Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New England Posts: 849	Re: "Feels like a book" (for e-readers or against?) If they're banned, then, by definition of the word "banned" they're not carried. If it's in the library, then the library hasn't banned it. Otherwise, y'know, it wouldn't be there. Because it would be banned, and all. Banned by whom? I mean..there are exploitive porn magazines that our library doesn't carry - so yeah those are banned. I think that's just fine. I also think that pornographic slasher movies being banned is fine. Catcher in the Rye? They have it in paperback and hardcover, and if you can't find a copy of it, they'll requisition it from another branch or another town in the co-op. Books that are famous (or infamous) for being on "banned lists" - our library has most of them, but really, some of them just never attracted enough interest for them to bother getting it, or replacing a copy if it was never returned/damaged beyond repair. I think they only have Lady Chatterly's Lover in hardcover in a section for classics. The New York City public library, I imagine, would have a few of each of those "banned lists" books kicking around. Modern electronic virtual e-"libraries of the future" will never replace the smell, feel, sight, of books, or even the sound of old paper when you turn the page, or the gentle creak of the binding of an enormous tome, such as Shakespeare's Complete Works. There's something sacreligious about the idea of reading Hunter S Thompson online, and not in a book. It's just wrong.