How long until the book-banning crowd tries to ban libraries?

To the editor: Though some are preventing again towards ebook bans, there may be nonetheless ample alternative for the censorship crowd to strip public library cabinets of “offensive” books.

These supplies have been bought and made obtainable to residents principally by means of the expenditure of public monies.

At what level will the censorship crowd flip its consideration to stopping “offensive” materials from reaching grownup readers by choking off tax-supported funding?

As a proponent of eradicating objectionable books has stated, “They’re of utmost sexual content material. Among the issues even at an grownup degree are excessive, crude, ugly, and pornographic in nature.”

The present threats to our free entry to data are very actual. As for expanded threats, it could be a query not of “if,” however “when.”

Frederick Miller, Los Angeles

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To the editor: The historical past of ebook banning reveals the oddest assemblage of characters and causes possible, from excessive left and proper.

Maybe the very best that may be stated for this bunch of anti-intellectual misfits is that they deserve each other.

Jeff Denker, Malibu

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To the editor: The individuals who love books (most of us) ought to suggest that no particular person has a voice in banning any ebook they haven’t really learn. Then, this book-trashing phenomenon shall be decreased drastically.

Scott W. Hamre, Cherry Valley, Calif.