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from: Doug Freyburger
date: 2007-01-31 08:20:42
subject: Re: anyone heard of book crossing?

Ed  wrote:
> Jan wrote:
> > Aleks A.-Lessmann says...
>
> >> Nice idea, just wait for the legal backslash if a lot of
people do that.
>
> > Okay, I'll bite. What's a legal backslash?  And if you meant
'backlash', what
> > legal ramifications could there be from this?
>
> You can stuff a deadly amount of military grade explosives inside a
> hollowed out book. I could see someone at Homeland Security making a big
> deal about people leaving books all over the place. We already have a
> mentality of notifying authorities about suspicious unattended packages

And here I was thinking in terms of litter laws or clustering local
lost
and found cabinets.

Leave out the right banned books and/or books on unpopular religions
and there would be a blacklash that is separate from the legal one.
Which is a large part of why lots of local libraries have a separate
rack
of banned books they encourage people to read ...
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