- An Ohio man checked out 100 library books & burned them. "The books were reportedly on Jewish history, African American history, and LGBTQ+ education." Librarians, pls consider NOT letting patrons take out more than 5-10 books at once. These are dangerous times. www.cleveland19.com/2025/05/12/m...May 14, 2025 01:56
- How do we replace those books? The library is for everyone!
- This article says the community is rallying to donate books, but you could always call the Cuyahoga County Public Library system & ask if they're taking donations to replace individual holdings that were lost. I agree; ea. book needs to go back on the shelves! www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...
- I hope they are charged
- So many Americans have lost their damn minds.
- Sounds like an opportunity to chain read the books he burned in front of his house.
- Charged with property crime, arson, theft, and restitution for destroyed books.
- Was he? I wasn't finding charges anywhere; that's good to hear. Do you have a link you can share?
- That’s true, but many people don’t have time to make multiple trips to the library, especially with kids. Maybe consider limiting books on one subject.
- I've never been to a non-academic library that allows loans of more than 2 to 4 weeks. Can you read 100 books in a month? I can't. He was going to have to go back there at some point in the fairly near future, if he hadn't planned on burning them. I homeschooled, yet we never came close to 100.
- I'm wondering how he managed to check out 100 books? I've never been in a library that allows more than 5 or 6.
- It's a lot, for sure. Too many. A hundred too many, in this case. One of the articles I read said he went back for more and told them he had a LGBTQ child and so needed to educate himself.
