[permaculture] book saving

KNat knat at sprintmail.com
Sun Dec 9 06:54:03 EST 2007


yarrow at sfo.com wrote:
>  
> I volunteer for one of the Friends of the Library groups,
> one of the very few in our area that gives away books
> considered unsalable -- marked up, not new enough, too
> specialized, too esoteric, too far removed from what they
> know or are interested in. (In other words, the decisions
> are arbitrary.) Most of the "salable" books are priced 50
> cents to 2 dollars (a few are more). Book dealers swarm
> over the generous selection of free books every day, and
> sometimes find "unsalable" books they can sell for $100. 
As one who enjoys "esoteric" "far from what people today know" 
"specialized" books this is a loss of resource without a protection 
scheme. It reminds me of the pages of Archimedes work we only have 
because someone wrote something religious on the back of and that got 
kept. The religious owners of the only library deliberately choosing not 
to keep "dangerous" ideas (like being part of nature instead of in 
dominion over it) have us only having references to some authors from 
times not long ago even in human terms. This description is of people 
idle in today's culture (often supported entirely by it) deciding what 
is important to the future of that society. We have a new library 
addition to display attractively 4 rows of new "popular" books and not a 
complete set of Foxfire because each volume stays or goes on usage over 
6 months. Anyone here need how to tan a hide every 6 months? Forge?) 
Many books are made but where is the last one stored and by whom? Surely 
there is something building.

Kathyann



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