Or deface it with markers, "commentary", and white-out. (At least the people who deface books with commentary -- and I don't consider it defacement if they do it to a copy that they themselves own -- must have taken the time to open the book and read part of it.) Or steal it from stores and libraries to throw it in the garbage. Or reshelving creatively, both in commercial establishments and scholarly ones. Or threaten bookstores, publishers, and libraries with legal action or commercial boycott. Or, famously in the case of Salman Rushdie, threaten the author, publishers and vendors with death.

We have not experienced the last one, but all of the above save the last have occurred in our little library. They occur in bookstores and libraries all over. It's censorship, and it's a threat to freedom of thought and freedom of association everywhere it occurs.

It very often starts with a list of "evil books". How else would the faithful know where to start? So many books, so little time...

I'm happy when someone publishes a list, because it gives me something to look for. But I am far from pleased that the lists themselves exist. If one wishes to fight an idea, one must do so by confronting it, not destroying access to it. Extermination by destruction doesn't work. Many a Catholic school student considered the Church's "Condemned" list to be required reading. Emile Zola was on that list for many years...