[HN Gopher] Killing Sir Walter Scott: A philosophical exploratio...
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       Killing Sir Walter Scott: A philosophical exploration of weeding
       (2013)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-02-22 08:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org)
        
       | bryanrasmussen wrote:
       | It seems rather difficult to believe Scott took up that much
       | shelf space unless there were multiple copies of Ivanhoe, as
       | there would tend to be. Also the article isn't really about
       | Scott, in fact he's hardly even mentioned.
        
         | vijayr02 wrote:
         | Ivanhoe is my favourite novel. I regularly re-read it and every
         | time it transports me to another world. If that's the book she
         | got rid of, what a shame! At least I hope disposal meant
         | distribution to other libraries, not being pulped...
        
         | defen wrote:
         | He wrote like 30 books, if anything I would expect his ouevre
         | to take up more than 3 feet of space if you had all of them.
        
           | bryanrasmussen wrote:
           | yeah, but she wrote 3 feet of packed shelves, so I wasn't
           | sure it took up just 3 feet of space. 3 feet wouldn't take up
           | more than one shelf for starters.
        
       | vijayr02 wrote:
       | I lazily read the title as Sir Walter Raleigh and went in
       | assuming this was about how he introduced tobacco to England and
       | was then put to death:
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       | https://www.biography.com/history-culture/walter-raleigh
        
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