i think its a bit misleading. I grew up in munich, germany and there are not many public libraries, but they are massive. The münchner stadtbibliothek has store

i think its a bit misleading. I grew up in munich, germany and there are not many public libraries, but they are massive. The münchner stadtbibliothek has stores (?) in every district. Then a few extra stores near major places and a big headquarter. It is roughly half the size of the new york public library for a city of only 1.5 million inhabitants. its not the only one, the state has one, the universities etc. The bavarian state library has nearly twice as many books as the new york public library. Maybe books per capita would be a better metric to rank cities (albeit a bit more complicated to research)