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dschnurr on April 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The...

I thought that number sounded low as well, but it sort of checks out after doing back of the hand math. 130M books / 107B people that ever lived = 0.0012 books/person, 1:1000 book to person ratio.

roryisok on April 22, 2017 [–]

Checks out. I'm a struggling author who has written approximately 0.0012 books

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