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Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash.

September 14, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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It was a book, a children’s book. But I dumped it in the garbage anyway. I threw it out the way I would toss out a dead flashlight battery or a slab of moldy cheddar. Read more.

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