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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I really think that the librarians (of whom I would have expected much more) are being borderline dishonest (and certainly disingenuous) with their promotion of banned book week.
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Really.
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And I'm strongly opposed to banning books;
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One thing we have in common, then.
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What they're really talking about is books that have been "challenged"
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Not only challenged; in many cases the books have subsequently been removed from public circulation. Can you still get the book? Of course. Even if you don't want to pay the LOC a visit, your local library might have it, or can get it for you. Will many people bother? Probably not.
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... defining a book as "banned" if it is removed from a school library somewhere
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That does, indeed, fit my definition and understanding of the term. It doesn't have to be banned everywhere: if a school library somewhere in the Bible Belt doesn't carry a book because the school board says it must not, that's effectively a ban, and as such a "banned book". What else?
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Removing a book from one school library is not "banning" the book
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Yes it if, for that library. That's the reason we can have top lists, i.e. in how many libraries this books is banned. Nobody said the book would be completely
forbidden in all of the US. The fact that you can buy the book, or read it by some other means, doesn't change that fact.