At What Temperature Do Microchips Burn?

Anyone who is familiar with this blog knows that my profession is law librarian. Today, I was just packing away volumes of a law journal for disposal. They are redundant because all issues are now available on line. I have reservations about doing this. Some might say it is because I love books, I love the feel of books. Their weight in my hands tells of weighty matters. If that were all, I could be justly dismissed as a Luddite. I worry though about the fragility of electronic media and its possible vulnerability to some future repressive regime or great natural disaster. How easy would it be for someone with access and malice to erase our heritage? Farenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper kindles. At what temperature do microchips burn?

The Book Collection That Ate Sheboygan

For many years I've thought about trying to organize our books. I was always daunted by the sheer enormity of the task. (In fact, if our daughter doesn't take her own collection with her when she moves out, we will soon have to rent another place just to live in.) With Library Thing I can organize virtually. No lugging heavy boxes, no risk of being crushed to death under avalanches of old sci-fi paperbacks.

The only drawback is the size limitation (Does anyone actually own fewer than 200 books?). Guess I'll have to get the pay version.

I'm going to try to make a link. It looked a little confusing.