The foul book-beast of Swindon

The Bodleian Libraries Twitter feed refers to books added to the new depository in Swindon as having been 'ingested'. Does this mean that the books are, in fact, being fed to a monster which has taken up residence on an industrial estate off the A419 and is demanding matured printed matter as its price for not unleashing a greater cataclysm? Perhaps this is why so many public libraries are closing, so that the beast has more to feed on when it has ingested the entire Bodleian bookstack.