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70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
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Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#12I'm not sure about other countries. There is a culture refuse to throw away books in Germany. People would put on the streets for free (I found two interesting books with this method).
I mean what are they going to do? Burn them? Oh wait...
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#13I’m not familiar with the “modern car” unit of weight.
“With an assumed average weight of 300 to 400 grams per book, the weight of around 15 modern cars is currently stored in Schröder’s detached house.”
350 grams x 70,000 books = 24,500 kg. About 54,000 lbs.
Can a ‘typical’ house bear that weight??
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#14I went to a local estate sale of a professor, whose entire downstairs (4+ rooms) was filled with bookshelves full of books. They were well organized by topic, and covered a range of topics (math, science, health, fiction, biographies, etc). It was more functional than artistic, comparing it to the pics in this post, but the number of books was probably the same order of magnitude as our local public library’s collect…
Disheartening to say the least. A cache like that would sure to a have single volume that would more than pay for the price to pay to have them moved and stored for a year… the idea that there are countless volumes of that caliber most likely in a collection like that means whomever is responsible is literally throwing money away… based on what you’ve described I could easily see a collection like that fetching at least a hundred thousand dollars, maybe substantially more.
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#15But you nobody can read 70k books, so what was the point? He had a library nobody knew about, full of books he hadn't read. That's not a library, it's an imitation of a library built by someone who doesn't understand what a library is for.
There’s an interesting term from the book the Black Swan, an antilibrary, which gains value from books that haven’t been read, but are at hand. Essentially resources for new ideas.
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#16I'm not sure about other countries. There is a culture refuse to throw away books in Germany. People would put on the streets for free (I found two interesting books with this method).
> People would put on the streets for free
In the US people put "Little Free Libraries" in their yards. They're all over the place in the Seattle area.
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#17I went to a local estate sale of a professor, whose entire downstairs (4+ rooms) was filled with bookshelves full of books. They were well organized by topic, and covered a range of topics (math, science, health, fiction, biographies, etc). It was more functional than artistic, comparing it to the pics in this post, but the number of books was probably the same order of magnitude as our local public library’s collect…
The thrift stores take them. No need for the dump.
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#18What is very surprising for me is the height of the books. If you look closer at the picture, seems that most of the books are the same height, so that's very strange for any book collection except if he was collecting the same book editors or... Am missing something ?
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#19My dad left me several thousand books. Mostly about airplanes and warfare.
Re: 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
#20What is very surprising for me is the height of the books. If you look closer at the picture, seems that most of the books are the same height, so that's very strange for any book collection except if he was collecting the same book editors or... Am missing something ?
Yah, I noticed that, too.