Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/05/a-brief-history-of-book-burnin.html
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Pissed off and misguided people have been burning books for thousands of years
Books as we know them is a relatively recent thing
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I once sent some ashes from my fireplace to a preacher who was burning books - I thanked him for inspiring me & told him it was a bible.
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“Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.” ~ Heinrich Heine
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It doesn’t really matter whether it’s a book as such - just like with so many other things, it’s the thought that counts.
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