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This size will have microscopic features! There is probably a balance between ease of scanning/technological sophistication required to see the pages, cost of etching, and the number of plates overall. The Long Now Foundation has extensively studied the language loss problem and arrived at a fairly elegant set of solutions. https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the-long-view/ https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the...