Funny, I stumbled across that same page later this afternoon.

I’ve read nearly all of them hehe

It was an army of Moslem fanatics who burned the Library of Alexandria.

@davknight Part of the library was accidentally destroyed by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, and slowly dwindled away over the years through lack of Roman Imperial support, and was finally demolished around 275 A.D. when Rome put down a rebellion in Alexandria.
This was well before there was any such thing as Islam.
Anyway, I was wrong too about it's relevance to the central point about "book-burning," though the validity of the general idea remains.

@Storm1752 The Caliph Omar had the whole place put to the torch in 640 AD.

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@AtheistReader Read a little more about it, and gather it was a slow, gradual decline, with the penultimate blow struck by the Christians determined to destroy all things pagan. In other words, yes, Muslims would've done the same thing, only destroying all things non-islamic, but the Christians got there first and, despite the graphic descriptions of fires burning for weeks, there was apparently nothing left to burn.
Whatever.
Whether it was the Christians or the Muslims or both, the central point remains, even to the present day:
Regardless of the presence of physical books, each person keeps in his or her mind a private library which cannot be erased or burned. It informs their opinions, which at some point may harden into true belief. Then, it cannot be amended
For true belief, once established, seems intractable and will disregard any or all information to the contrary

I did not know that Buffy Sainte Marie was blacklisted. Does that include the movie "Officer and a gentleman" As she co-wrote the theme song?

@273kelvin she's spoken about it in a number of interviews. It's a major part of why she went on Sesame Street actually, although she didn't know she was blacklisted until decades later. She just knew her music wasn't getting played, so she went to t.v. instead.
I can't answer your specific question though, I just don't know.

@PolyComrade I just did a little research and it was the Johnson/Nixon administration that blacklisted her. So I suppose that it must have faded out by that time.

Dude... Have you seen the risque shit in those Where's Waldo books?? To be sure!

Perhaps a gov. buy-back would work..

Not sure I follow you. What do you mean 'people who want to narrow the view of young people or people in general'? Narrow the view, as in, limit their view of the world? Not expose them to a different view? Keep them in a bubble? I mean, you would have to raise your kids on a compound in the middle of nowhere with no access to the outside world... very Amish type life..

@Captain_Feelgood Not so, I have a nephew who teaches chemistry and had a parent who is now suing the school board for sullying her mind with science. Their not going to win, might not even get a hearing, but, the mother made a statement that girls didn't need to learn science as it gave them a non-biblical view of the world. Ignorance is bad but we seem to be taking it to a new level!

@BillF Ahh... I gotchya.. Yes, there are folks out there that would like to see only their view in print... I'm glad the young girl isn't living in a cult like home environment..

I refer you back to the first Paragraph in the link for the definition of 'banned' being used here... "Banned Books Awareness Week is a time to celebrate our intellectual freedom by reading books that others have deemed unacceptable for certain people to read. Reasons books get banned or challenged (which means someone wants the book banned from a school or library, but the request was denied) vary from “unacceptable sexual content “and “excessive violence” to “animals don’t talk” and “the book is a real downer.” " ..
I think most of the people (if not all) that requested the school ban a book, did so because of religious reasons. Sure, there were some books with sexual content that most people would consider unappropriated for very young minds.
I have to wonder, why you choose to ban Pilgrim's Progress from your home? It's well accepted as an allegorical work of fiction.

@Captain_Feelgood Pilgrim’s Progress is based on, and amplifies the stupid religious dogma that I was brought up with, and it fosters guilt and fear of hell. I read it once and that was one time too many. I have no use for the book.

No doubt there are some busybodies who make it their business to select reading material for others, but generally those people are pretty impotent. I’m not going to get worried or upset unless government censorship is at play.

@WilliamFleming Oh, I'm with you on the whole 'government censorship' thing.. no doubt..
Now I'm curious, do you ban all books from your house that are religion based in context? So,, no copy of the Christian Bible, or Torah, Koran?

@Captain_Feelgood My whole point was that the word “ban” is inappropriate in most settings.

I select books that are interesting to me. My library contains a number of books of Hindu scriptures, and many books about spirituality. I have a New Testament translated and annotated by Yogananda Paramahansa, but no Old Testament. It is to the point that one need not own paper copies of books. I have downloaded various versions of the Bible, the Koran, the Kabbalah, etc. but for my home bookshelf I am fussy about what I keep.

And what about you? What books do you keep? Do you have a full complement of Scientology literature? I would expect that an open-minded person such as yourself would keep a copy of Mein Kampf within easy reach.

@WilliamFleming WHOOA , slow your roll there cowboy! Why the animosity? I was just asking a legit question about your banning of books... No, I don't tell anyone that they are not allowed to bring this book or that book into my home. I don't have to agree with an idea to have a book about it. I do have a copy of Mein Kampf, but I certainly don't agree with it's teachings. I also have an English version of the Koran, but I certainly don't believe it's teachings either.. Hell, there are lots of books I don't have, for the plain reason of lack of room, but I wouldn't say one was banned.. That's all.. Jeeeeese ... Take a chillax pill there my friend..

@Captain_Feelgood No animosity—I thought it was a joke. Can’t you see the emoticon?

You continue to talk about the banning of books after I have repeatedly said that the word is not appropriate in this context. That was the entire motivation for my first response—to express the opinion that “banning” is not the right word. I even made a joking analogy about my “banning” of Pilgrim’s Progress. You now are all over me for being one of those evil book banners. No, I do not “ban” books, but I do SELECT books that I want, and I do NOT SELECT those that I don’t want, the same way that a school librarian might do.

I have *Mein Kampf” on my iPhone that I got off Gutenberg Press. I found it boring until I got to his Vienna period. Reading that was literally making me sick, especially what he wrote about the Jews. I had to stop reading.

Sir, I did not intend to express any sort of animosity toward you. I am totally at peace and I wish you nothing but happiness and a good evening.

@WilliamFleming Well color me embarrassed. I totally misunderstood you. My bad.. Cheers