Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth? - Opinion

Found this via Fark.
Maybe those Oklahoma Statute books I saw in the OU Government Documents collection weren't bound in sheep skin after all.... !?!
Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth? - Opinion:

...Many older libraries and rare book collectors, including several at Harvard and in the Boston area, have an almost-literal skeleton in the closet: anthropodermic bibliopegy, the technical term for books bound in human skin.

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A faint inscription on the last page of the book reads: "The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King btesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace." (The Wavuma appear to be an African tribe, possibly in current Zimbabwe.)

Based on his research into the history of the book, curator David Ferris believes the inscription is accurate and that the book is indeed bound in human skin. In 1992, a tiny piece of the binding was tested for DNA but the test was inconclusive as the tanning process was deemed to have destroyed the DNA beyond identification...