Excerpted from a handout given me by an Anchorage librarian a while back, entitled “Why Books are Better than Drugs.”
No one ever had to check into the Betty Ford Clinic for reading too much.
Nobody ever read too many books and then jumped off a building, walked through a plate-glass window, or mooned a cop.
You don’t have to flush all your books down the toilet when there’s an unexpected knock at the door.
It is extremely rare that anyone gets gunned to death in a book dispute.
Your friends won’t desert you when you run out of books.
You can read all you want it won’t show up on a urine test.
If you miss reading one day, you won’t go into painful withdrawal. [Dana sez: “Sez you.”]
No matter how many books you have, you can’t be charged with ‘intent to distribute.’