> On Jun 4, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Jon Corelis wrote:
>
> >>> Two million
> >>> to four million [books] will have their spines sliced off before
> >>> being
> >>> piled into a recycling machine the size of a Dumpster, chewed up and
> >>> spat
> >>> out as bales of paper.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be great if we could just do this to every book in the
> > world?
> > We could start again clean.
Who was the Chinese emperor who tried this with the Confucian texts? Same
one who built the Great Wall, I think.
Didn't work then ...
Red Rover
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