Brian Lyman writes: “Books, even bad ones, let you live another life for a few hundred pages. They let you walk in the souls of people you may never meet and connect you in ways you might not expect. And that frightens a lot of people. I’m not certain that terror of understanding is what’s actually fueling the wave of attacks on libraries in Alabama and around the nation. This ‘outrage’ has a got-it-at-warehouse-club feel, even in a state where made-up problems spark more outrage than life-threatening crises.