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by JoeAltmaier 3455 days ago
I'm guess that, like me, he's appalled that a library should choose to discard useful books on the basis of popularity. I'd manipulate goofy metrics like hell to preserve the collection too. Else you end up with a popular-culture library with a memory of a year or so. Instead of a true library.

All that's been said. I'm just agreeing with the strategy to defy the Philistines at all costs. The librarian was a hero.