[Saturdays]

Such an interesting topic to start with, and glad he extends it from the premise of burning books to things like misuse, access and privatization of knowledge.

The burning of Harry Potter books fascinated me growing up. Back when I was a teen it was for religious reasons. More recently it has also occurred for political and protest reasons directed at JK Rowling. It so happens that banning books and 'book burnings' may have the opposite effect and rather call added attention and possibly higher sales to the books at the subject of the ban/burn. I tend to frequent the 'banned book' section at bookstores such as 'The Strand', some of my favorite books are there.

Some great literature is only known to us because someone decided NOT to burn works such as Virgil's Aeneid and Dickinson's poems. I know it's not the point of this book in particular, but interesting nonetheless.

Thanks for the awareness, I'll be picking this up to read!