Wednesday, September 1, 2010

And I Thought There Were A Lot Of Books in Pre-shelving!

This has nothing to do with reference, but I though this bit of trivia was interesting.  Using an algorithm that crunches numbers from libraries, national union catalogs and WorldCat, Google estimates that there are over 129 million books in existence!

I'll try to remember this the next time I'm routing in books in Call Center and convince myself that things could be worse.
Photo from La Gatera de Beguemot.

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