Hear, Hear Malcolm. I, too, remeber Banned Book Week from the seventies. It may have been around even longer for all I know. It was not dreamed up by Barnes & Noble. People don't read anymore?!? Get real. Thanks to Oprah people are reading more then ever before, and the authors she chooses are really quite good. Being chosen by Oprah is better then been the featured Book Of The Month, which Salinger was several times. Book groups are all the rage. Some people, especially women, are in several. As for keeping a vigil on banned books we can't let our guard down. A children's book by Cynthia Rylant called Dog Heaven was banned in the Bible belt. Why? Because it insinuated that dogs went to heaven. Evidently this goes against most fundamentalist religions. (there is a sequeal now, Cat Heaven).