With all this OWS book destruction, people are going to have become the book.

[valerief]

Like in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

[brooklynite]

1. What book destruction?

The city announced that the Liibrary books had been stored after the Zuccotti Park eviction, and we're available for pick up. My wife who works across from Zuccotti Park says the Library has already re-opened.

[valerief]

2. Rachel said they only had 100 books and then the cops came and took those, too. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Yep they did....There is video on the People's Library web site of the cops

seizing the books.
http://peopleslibrary.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/this-is-what-a-police-looks-like/

[brooklynite]

7. Seizure is not destruction...

...my guess is that the City will release them again, provided they're not assembled in Zuccotti Park.

[valerief]

10. Well, I figure dumping them in a dumpster is pretty much destruction. nt

[handmade34]

3. "The Giver"

...read it with many of my students...

speaking of libraries; does anyone know what's up??... I am in the process of packing up books and happen to be going down to New York this weekend... would love to take a box or two down

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. ...

:thumbsup:

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Cops took the books again.

http://peopleslibrary.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/this-is-what-a-police-looks-like/

[handmade34]

8. thanks for the link

I will try to find out if they can take more...

[w0nderer]

9. modern version

encrypted partition on smartphone
containing books in epub format
rooted or jailbroken phone with wifi hotspot (ad-hoc) capacity and ftp server or sftp server capacity
(or just phone to phone file share / push bluetooth capacity)

2 people meet, smile, push a button on the phones in their pockets as they pass each other, walk on with books distributed to another person

copy the books from phone to a backup microsd (today a 4 gig one can be had around 10 dollars, and will hold a pretty fair library, works to distribute those too)

solar charger for the reading device

technology now is to where information dissemination is HARD to stop