What kind of reptile did you have?
When is it okay to burn books?
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What kind of reptile did you have?
It was a snow corn snake named Yuan'ti. Yuan'ti passed away a few years ago, and now we have a regularly pigmented corn snake named Nyarlathotep.
We also currently have a bearded dragon named Smaug and a leopard gecko who goes by Strax. (Unfortunately his gal pals Jenny and Vastra were not so strong, and after a zillion trips to the leopard gecko doctor they succumbed to whatever it is that these little creatures die from. I am convinced that leopard geckos do not actually need food to live, that the meal and waxworms and such are just a clever distraction so that we humans do not notice that they subsist entirely on veterinarian bills and the tears of teenage girls.)
I had nothing to do with the naming of these animals. My husband and I have been genetically and culturally gifted with Geekhood for several generations on both sides of the family and it is exciting to see that this heritage has manifested itself in our spawn as well!
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Well, burning a book today is not a big deal because there are copies everywhere. Some of the silly books like Twilight are written for the audience....not written for the story content. All written words are not sacred. Most of the stuff like pop psychology,etc are not museum caliber....no Gutenberg bibles out there at the book stores chains.
...if it's obsolete school books, encyclopedias, manuals, the odd Kardashian-I say.......
We can write a book about the Twilight burning and call it Fahrenheit 1184 (the temperature it takes for crap to burn
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We can write a book about the Twilight burning and call it Fahrenheit 1184 (the temperature it takes for crap to burn
...what scares me, is that you KNEW that....We can write a book about the Twilight burning and call it Fahrenheit 1184 (the temperature it takes for crap to burn
If they're beyond use anymore, I would say. I'd rather burn my kids' books that are outgrown and too tattered to donate than throw them in a landfill. I can understand burning outdated tech books, too. You're 4X4 with me 
My kids claim they were 'doomed to nerdhood' from birth--lol.
Hm...some manuals and tech books can be valuable as...well I suppose you'd call them 'curiosities' or 'museum pieces'. Apart from universities and other places that might want them as items of academic/historical interest, there are a few people who actually collect that stuff (usually, if not especially, if it's computer related).
But I wouldn't burn them in any case. I'd strip the covers, perhaps remove binding (if it's the gluey stuff) and 'glossy'/photo pages and put the rest out for recycling.
But I wouldn't burn them in any case. I'd strip the covers, perhaps remove binding (if it's the gluey stuff) and 'glossy'/photo pages and put the rest out for recycling.
True about trash and treasure. But originally this was about burning books that were outdated and of no use to anyone. Personally I wouldn't burn books. I have given them away, but in the situation outlined at thebeginning of the thread I don't see anything wrong.
A much younger Me and my school mates burnt a box of yard sale books once, it was the "fire bug phase" when we used to hide down the old railway track behind the carpet warehouse, and set fire to whatever we could. All fine and dandy until somebody set fire to the embankment after trying to burn the cardboard tubing they keep the carpets rolled on . That was our space gone after that. Made quite a mess.
We grabbed old jumble (yard sale leftovers) left out for the scouts to pick up - but we'd get there first to rake through the booty- and share out the spoils. Everything else was lit up. Hate to think what went up in smoke back then - we did salvage the important stuff - a fine collection of playboy mags, that were hidden in various bolt holes along the abandoned track.
Fun times.
We grabbed old jumble (yard sale leftovers) left out for the scouts to pick up - but we'd get there first to rake through the booty- and share out the spoils. Everything else was lit up. Hate to think what went up in smoke back then - we did salvage the important stuff - a fine collection of playboy mags, that were hidden in various bolt holes along the abandoned track.
Fun times.
Brings back memories. My own school buddies and I once grabbed a few shotgun shells each from our fathers stocks and secretly met in the basement of a new house that was being built. It was just a foundation and a floor with a little hole to get down to the basement. We found a ladder laying by the foundation and used it to get down. We then proceeded to take apart all the shells and pour out little bits of the gunpowder into a collective pile. After finishing we ran a tiny little line of it to the other end of the basement and lit it. Our plan was to rush up the ladder and observe from the safety above while the "fuse" burned slowly, wile e. coyote style, and eventually hit the bigger pile of gunpowder. As soon as we touched match to flame it reached the big pile almost instantaneously and a huge fireball went straight up, hit the basement roof and spread out over our heads. This happened so quickly we were in a bit of shock and once the smoke hit we couldn't breathe and scurried up the ladder, ran away very quickly as we thought the whole town may have seen the huge fireball and were coming to investigate. Once we were hidden away from it all and were able to catch our breath we laughed like the delinquent morons we were. Stupid kids!
Can't say I'd burn a book, even if it was school or law text. I'd just take it to Goodwill. You never know, one person's grade nine science book from the 80s could be another person's bible of information.
I know right? My boys , all three, are proud nerds
Of one is freezing to death certain books can go, but maybe not before furniture.
