Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: A dystopian novel about a future in which people ban and burn books.

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Earlier this year, one of the owners of Addyman Books, Derek Addyman, started a publicity campaign to ban the Kindle from the town.

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She said the book ban probably came in around the middle of the 18th century, a time when various legal cases saw several books deemed to be too rude to be allowed for sale.

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