This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age. From the Contents: 1. Burning Sex Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin; Heike Bauer/ 4. The Complete Works of Franz Kafka Burned [interview]; Ross Birrell/ 8. Waste Matters: Charles Dicken's Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling; Heather Tilley/ 10. kindle: Recying and the future of the book [interview]; Nicola Dale.