Just for the record...

[daltong]

All the projects I see in craftgrrl that use old vinyl records by mutilating them (into bowls, handbags, etc) offend my sensibilities.

I really am a librarian--or maybe a preservationist--at heart.

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[mactavish]

I once ran a Cream album through an industrial dishwasher because the person in the school kitchen, where we had a record player, played it all morning, every morning, the record was in poor condition, and we were all sick of it. (I went through boarding school on a work scholarship, washing dishes.)

For some reason, changing damaged media doesn't bother me.

My ex-MiL used to burn paper trash rather than throw it away. (She had recycling pick up at her house, but never used it, as otherwise she hated sorting. I don't know why she managed to sort for the fire and not pick-up.) She'd save it and save it, then once a week or so, sit in front of the fireplace, tossing it in a piece or two at a time, to burn it up. When she was done reading one of her favorite really shoddy romances, she'd get rid of them this way. I found out by watching her toss a book into the fire. I yanked it out and stomped on it. She said, "That one was really bad, I won't be reading it again."

"But you can't burn it." I took it outside and put it in the recycling. I couldn't see a point in keeping it -- it was a really bad book, but I couldn't see it burn. The imagery of book burning is as strong as flag burning is for some folks. I cringe.

For me, I can't imagine ever burning a flag, but I can see its importance as protest. That said, folks use book burning as protest, but they also use it to control information, and that use has a stronger mental barrier for me.

Maybe they shouldn't have let me read Fahrenheit 451 at such an impressionable age.