Will there be a notable book-burning event on a US college campus before 2030?

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Must be intentional. An accidental library fire doesn't count.

A single person burning a few of their own books doesn't count. Must involve several people and a large number of books, somewhere public or semi-public.

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Another related event: In 2022 a USA church did this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/book-burning-harry-potter-twilight-us-pastor-tennessee

It looks like this happened in 2019: Georgia college students burned the books of a Latina author

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Would burning ebooks count?

@Yev https://xkcd.com/750/

@Yev Hmm. Tempted to say no, since book burning is primarily symbolic, and burning Kindles doesn't seem quite as meaningful.

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@IsaacKing Not clear to me why its any less symbolic that way..

My next question is going to be about burning ebooks onto a CD 😏

@MichaelWheatley Well for one thing, it doesn't actually make it harder for people to access that content.

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@IsaacKing Presumably the corollary of that is that burning books that have been digitized also doesn’t make it harder for people to access the content, it’s just symbolic.