{"id":2426,"date":"2009-02-12T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:59:20","slug":"quietly-trashing-all-the-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Quietly Trashing All the Children’s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sherry blogs about the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act, saying she knows of a used bookstore trashing all of it’s children’s books out of fear<\/a> of this Improvement Act. I thought second-hand stores, thrift, used, and libraries, were exempt from this act, but even if that’s true, some store owners are not comforted by it. <\/p>\n

The CPSC has, as of last week, made an exception for \u201cordinary children\u2019s books printed after 1985.\u201d Supposedly, some inks used before 1985 may have contained some lead. (However, the eight, nine, or ten year old reading a copy of Winnie the Pooh printed before 1985 would have to eat the book to get get any level of lead into their system. My four to twelve year olds don\u2019t eat books. Do yours?) Right now, the bookstore where my daughter works is getting around the law by reclassifying their children\u2019s books printed before 1985 as \u201cvintage books\u201d for adult collectors. Of course, this strategy is just that, a way of circumventing the law. That 1983 copy of Winnie the Pooh isn\u2019t really vintage or collectible; it also isn\u2019t dangerous to children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, youth dirt bikes and ATVS are illegal to sell under the same act.<\/a> Is the government trying to put small companies and many retailers out of business? It sure seems to be. Do we hate congress enough to rally for mandatory six-month vacations now? The less time they spend in Washington, the better we’ll be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sherry blogs about the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act, saying she knows of a used bookstore trashing all of it’s children’s books out of fear of this Improvement Act. I thought second-hand stores, thrift, used, and libraries, were exempt from this act, but even if that’s true, some store owners are not comforted by it. … Continue reading Quietly Trashing All the Children’s Books<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}