Again, for me it's irrational. No matter how much I agree with you all about the rationality of not worshiping books as objects, no matter how much I also love the fact that I can read over the internet or in my Iphone (Kindles are hell way too expensive to ship down here) and how finding extra uses to hardbacks that otherwise you wouldn't read... That doesn't change the fact that I have an irrational horrified response at seeing books getting destroyed and I have always had it since I was six. Why? Because down here? Where I live? Books-as-content are scarse. People DON'T read, people think that Books are just objects that aren't worth their time. In average, people in my country read 3 books a year. So for me, the idea of destroying books is about the object and about the content. That book that you guys say it's impossible to salvage? I would've repaired it, not turned into crafts.