It was bad for the library to use this book as a cheap and vulgar communication tool. It’s better to destroy it as they did but I’m not comfortable with this idea either. The best solution IMHO would have been to keep it, to preserve it, but to stop using it for anything but research.
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library
Submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Photo of the book in question prior to the removal of the binding:
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silence7@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
For the curious, this is what it actually looks like:
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