alt Hacker NewsTo me, the hate against "destroying books" is kinda silly. The reason we're against destroying books is because the Nazis did it to destroy information.
This situation has absolutely no relation to that. This is the exact opposite, and the only reason this information isn't available publicly and is in risk of getting lost is copyright law.
TLDR: Amazon isn't the nazis in this story, copyright law is.
Making the verbatim content of the book lost forever is not equivalent to burning them? I'd even wager that the CO2 emissions of the scan,shred, and train process is even higher than burning.