POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Book burning in the modern era

Yes, I know this is a little late in the news cycle, but the thought just came to me today: how to do a book-burning when the offending book is electronic-only?

Burning kindles/nooks would be toxic.

Deleting files... not quite the same visuals.

Print it out and burn the paper? Run the printouts through a shredder?

But why go to the trouble of printing out the text anew? Just rummage through office recycle bins, tell other people that it's a printout of whatever heretical book, and then run through the shredder. Stick the results in a hamster cage.

See, I'm just full of ideas! And I'm not even charging for them.

Meep

Meep is a member of the Irish Catholic mafia, having a suspiciously high number of green-eyed, red-haired friends. While she doesn’t have red hair herself [except when she goes into the sun (rare for any vampire)], she does have green eyes. She’s a raving Papist and is a life actuary on the side [i.e., she counts dead people]. An amateur pain-in-the-ass [willing to go pro!], she likes covering retirement, mortality, math, and education issues.