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Any examples of those rare books?
Edit: of course not, what an absolute shit article. "If you don't dislike trashing a book you're a bad person!!!" Basically. What an ignorant idea. The article linked in the first "article" (the first contains 0 information) isn't much better, large companies buy books nobody wants, scans them and discards them.
Guess what librarians worldwide do? Well they don't scan the books before sending them for recycling.
So an overly emotional trash headline to generate that sweet anger and engagement IMO.
Where did you get the idea that these were only books that no-one cared about? I re-read the article and didn't find anything where they specified the type of rare books collected, scanned and destroyed
In the title of this post for starters, but even if it's true, the post is just ragebait crap.