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It turns out you really can judge a book by its cover, especially if the title is something like "Siam Today."

For K-12 librarians, it's a no-brainer to toss a book that's full of outdated, often politically incorrect information. But they say it's a public relations nightmare when taxpayers find out librarians actually toss out books.

"It looked like a Nazi book-burning," is how Grand Rapids' Riverside Middle School media specialist Becky Goodspeed described her first few months of book-weeding in that library six years ago.

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