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Even new books are thrown away or otherwise destroyed all the time. There's nothing magical about any general mass market book.
As long as they're using books nobody wanted (whether new or as the linked to page says recycled) then I don't care.
But yeah I remember the various hysterical people from my public library days. We'd explain it was a book that had been on our shelves for 40 years and hadn't been checked out in almost 20 and even the local prison didn't want it and the Friends of the Library weren't able to sell it for $0.05 so yes and by the way this book is in the collection of the local university library and so available through ILL, so yes we're throwing it away so that we can put a book people will actually use on the shelves.
Most libraries are not archives. So long as that desk didn't remove from availability any piece of information then have at it as far I'm concerned. Though it makes for an ugly desk with the books in that orientation (and I suspect that none of the titles are visible to minimize the complaints).
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