Is it ever okay to throw away books?

All Books Aloud - Un podcast de Elizabeth Brookbank & Martha Brookbank

Send us a textWhat do you do with books that you're finished with? Books you've read or don't want anymore or spilled coffee on? In this episode we discuss what makes a book valuable - to individuals and to society - and why this can sometimes result in anxiety about how books are disposed of. We dig into the work libraries do to preserve books and the “weeding” they have to do to stay functional for the communities they serve. Elizabeth goes on a teeny-tiny rant about the controversy th...

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