>There is something inherently revolting about pulping billions of pages of literature.

even my small town in my not particularly environmentally-conscious country has had those boxes for paper recycling since the 90s. I personally dumped a metric ton of pristine condition books into them after my grandparents died, because I had neither space nor desire to store a cubic meter of that utterly obsolete medium.

there's nothing sacred about paper, just like there was nothing sacred about clay tablets and sheepskins it had replaced. a nail-sized SD card can hold more books than the largest libraries in the world. venerating paper and libraries, at this point, is an irrational fetish.

and contrary to what all these activist/ragebait articles attempt to convince the uncritical intellectual majority, it is astronomically unlikely that any of these destroyed books were the only ones in existence. they are copies. you could buy a truckload of copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, wipe your ass with each one and then burn them, and while that act could be spun into "Local Man Burns a Thousand Books, Just Like the Nazis Did", it wouldn't actually make any fucking difference, would it?