The 50-60 million figure comes from my library school studies, but my
memory isn't the best, so I may have it wrong. Tony
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Tue, 12 Dec Deb said:
> *sigh* Does anyone else sympathize with this feeling -- this feeling that
> I want to know *everything*, but just don't have enough hours in a day?
> I remember as a kid I promised myself I'd read every book ever written or
> translated into English (I figgered one language would be enough). Now I
> want to read every book ever written.
anybody out there have any idea of the actual number of books Deb's
talkin about here? books written in english? books translated into
english? total number of books ever written? guess exact numbers are
impossible to give, but what kind of numers are we talkin about,
approximately?
have a nice day :-)
tb
(awestruck by the task of trying to imagine all those writing hours)
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