Re: Oddities

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:33:01 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

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 was also assuming that there were duplicate books in a single
library as well as multiple copies of the same books in the various
branch libraries.  Since Tom hasn't disclosed which libraries he "read
out", I can determine their degree of duplication. 

Also, the book inventory is rather dynamic and changes often.  The
process is known as "weeding", where books that have had no
circulation in a year are recycled:
 
"Collection Maintenance and Weeding"
<https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit/weeding>

In the years when Tom was allegedly "reading out" libraries, there was
no efficient way to deal with distributions and duplicates.
Eventually, computers and networks allowed the implementation of a
functional library reservation and checkout system, where books could
be reserved at one library and delivered for checkout at an other
library.  This dramatically reduced the number of duplicate copies
that needed to be purchased and stored at each library.
 

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.

True.  All the books you've mentioned were obviously non-fiction,
which implies that Tom read most of them.

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.

It's possible for Tom to fix a frame dent.  However, that requires the
use of proper fixtures and tools, which Tom lacks:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=fix%20bicycle%20frame%20dent>
Having the dent fix itself is very unlikely.  Well, maybe if Tom rides
a bicycle with a frame made from rubber.

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