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Some pictures are just too perfect and amazing to wrap my head around, worth far more than a thousand words. I wonder how it could exist, how anyone could make such a thing, think up such a thing, or get a picture that truly conveys it.
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It looks like an Escher!!
 
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I could spend my days in that library. Connecting the dots -- time well spent.
 
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I presume there's a mirror ceiling giving it the Relativity vibe? I think it's real, but unfortunately whoever posted it did not put the caption on the pic itself. I think it may be a library in Japan?

Edit: found it listed as "A new Zhongshuge Bookstore in Chengdu, China" posted on Reddit three years ago.
 
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Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in China

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Wow!
 
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I suspect some of the books in that bookstore are decorative, unless they use drones?

Bookshops can be dangerous! On a smaller scale:


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Leakey's in Inverness, Scotland is a second hand bookshop in an old church, reputed to be the largest secondhand bookshop in Scotland. Just two stories, but packed with books (and an upstairs cafe, so you can enjoy your purchase over a cup of tea!)
They could probably do with a rocket stove to replace their wood burner....
 
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Nancy Reading wrote:I suspect some of the books in that bookstore are decorative, unless they use drones?



The higher-up ones are wallpaper, which is kind of disappointing, but at the same time is kind of cool in that such an amazing display can be made with less.
 
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Looks a bit like my bedroom, lol.  Actually pulled some books this weekend to send down the road.  Tried to give some of the young adult books to some kids but they said they did all their reading on their ipads.  Pretty much the same for me, so I can’t point fingers.  Kind of strange to observe technology overtaking something that was once so valuable.  I’d like to see a life cycle study that compared the environmental impact of paper books (paper) vs digital books (copper, rare metals, energy, etc)

*Just made a bet with my wife that all the books written in the English language would fit in my pockets on thumb drives.  Prove me wrong!
 
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According to this article, and extrapolating forward another several years, the number is likely to be somewhere around 140 million. Given some average book size ranges and standard text compression factors, that would take around 1.2 - 1.5 petabytes of storage space.

The biggest USB memory sticks available now are 1 TB, so you would need well over a thousand of them. How big are your pockets, and will you be needing to walk around with your library? Another option would be to go to this vendor and find out how much the 100 TB SSD costs (they don't publish the price, but the 64 TB model will only set you back 16 large). You'd only need a dozen or so, and they're 3.5" form factor so you could conceivably cram all of them into the available pocket space on a good pair of cargo pants.
 
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Here's a pic of something I noticed a couple years ago. There was a woman who worked with me for several years, but I had never spoken to her, as I had never had any business with her. One day she had business with me and approached from behind me and said my name. I turned around and was practically stunned when my eyes met hers. The thought which came into my mind (which never had in all my life) was that looking into her eyes was like gazing into two galaxies. The color, the depth. It was surreal.
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May Lotito wrote:Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in China


Ah. I fear the reading selection may be a bit limited for my taste. Cool design though.
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