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> “...it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that 3.2 km could be freed up for new acquisitions” Am I reading this correctly and they have 3.2 kilomete
by varenc 2y ago
> “...it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that 3.2 km could be freed up for new acquisitions”
Am I reading this correctly and they have 3.2 kilometers of dissertations? What an interesting unit of paper archive size, though it makes sense.
- StrangeDoctor 2y agoI think linear bookshelf distance is a normal unit for talking about collections. At least as informative as number of books. Guessing 15 meters per bookshelf from photos, 214 bookshelves? doesn't sound as cool to me.
- Jtsummers 2y ago3.2km of linear storage space makes sense for books. You aren't just piling them up in stacks, where volume might be a useful measure, and you aren't putting them arbitrarily deep on the same row because that prevents access. You'll usually store things like this one book deep. If you have a 4-row shelf where you could have an 8-row shelf with the same width, each row 1m wide, you have 4m vs 8m of linear storage space.
- Ekaros 2y agoAbout 3 200 000 cm... That is actually surprisingly large number if you assign any number of centimetres for each.
- netrus 2y agoYou are of by a factor of 10.
- bedatadriven 2y agoYou are off by one f.
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