Shakespeare for Breakfast

In my very first blog post I assessed the ability of books in an economic collapse to be used as currency. Looking back I still believe that this would be a wonderful form of currency. However, through this class I have come to terms with the hardship of a currency. It is subject to change because of the fickleness of people. This was assessed by Polland in "The Botany of Desire" in reference to the tullipmania. Not only this, but in an economic crisis books would greatly depreciate in value and would most likely would be used for kindling before currency. Books have an alternate use as entertainment, but the needs of stability in food and shelter come before entertainment. Thus, I'm not so sure that after an economic collapse books would be used as currency. However, if deforestation comes first then that would be a better scenario for this.