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Here's a few pictures of Manguel's old library: https://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/09/24/the-library-at-night-by-alberto-manguel/ https://thesleeplessreader.co

by Luc 9y ago

Here's a few pictures of Manguel's old library: https://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/09/24/the-library-at-night-by-alberto-manguel/ https://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/09/24/the-library-at-nig... It doesn't look like 35k books. Must be very efficiently stacked in there.

Freak_NL 9y ago
Very efficient indeed! I would guess the wide bottom shelves hold double rows at least. If I use my own meagre collection of not even 1000 books as a guide, I would estimate that that room can hold about 20000 books if used as efficiently as possible. That room looks blissfully comfortable.