Re: Oddities

On 4/9/2025 6:57 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:09:08 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 

https://librarytechnology.org/library/1751
"The collection of the library contains 315,651 volumes."

 Let's pretend that it takes only 1 hr for Tom to speed read those
books.  That would be:
   315,651 hrs / 8760 hrs/year = 36 years
Assuming Tom started when he didn't graduate from high school in 1962,
he would have been done reading in about:
   1962 + 36 = 1998
Tom might need get updated books since many of them would be obsolete
by the time Tom was done reading all the books.

Besides that, tommy was making an assumption that the three branches have redundancies. We don't know that, the link I gave may be indicating _unique_ volumes.

 I'll assume that while "reading out" 3 libraries and 1 military
library that Tom read each book only once.  Hmmm... reading each book
only once at any library makes me wonder why Tom bothered to mentioned
3 libraries and 1 military library.  Doing it all in one library would
have been adequate.

A military library would have materials generally not carried by public libraries. Growing up on military bases, I can attest those libraries had much larger sections on  military history, armaments, battle/campaign analysis, etc.
All of which is totally moot to the point: Tommys claim of "reading out" three libraries has as much likelihood of truth as a dent popping out of his top tube.

 

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