Current Events > Scenario: for a year, everyone needs to use recycled paper

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Logging in regards to paper production, and paper production based on wood pulp, is banned worldwide for a year. Brand new paper is rationed out to all of the institutions who need the most pristine paper, and once all of that is gone, everyone on earth needs to use recycled paper.

The most plentiful source of paper is, naturally, books. So people begin to round up old books for the sake of pulping them and turning them into usable paper for the masses.

The question I want to pose is this:

What books do you think would be selected to get pulped first, and if you were in charge of the pulping, what books would you target first? Whether it be for the volume of paper or the contents of the book is up to you.

Personally, I'd prioritise athlete autobiographies. The great athletes can stay, your GOATs like Usain Bolt and Grant Hackett and Mike Tyson etc. But who the fuck is reading about Tim Tebow? Who's going to read some hack schlock by some third-rate athlete from the 80's and a ghostwriter talking about the game back then and how it's changed, and offering advice to the next generation of athletes as if it means anything?

Again, not GOATs - just random-ass athletes who are b-list or lower, taking up valuable paper on a book with no marketable value and arguably no valuable insight fuelled by its lack of appeal.

I'd probably go after extraneous cricket biographies and NRL books first, with emphasis on athletes with more than one autobiography to their name. Not that I would wipe them all out - moreso that I think out of all the books littering donation bins and the like, these are the books that would be plentiful enough to be a reasonably efficient source of recycled paper. Danielle Steel and Clive Cussler novels are next on that list.

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