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Old 01-03-2014, 05:35 AM   #8
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@cybmole, Notjohn You seem to be assuming that your reading habits are universally applicable.

Not all books are read from cover to cover, eg a dictionary or a Haskell language guide, or a Ducati 750 SuperSport motorcycle maintenance manual.

And not all 'books' are books as such. They can be things like journal articles, academic dissertations, official publications from government agencies and quango's, reports from think-tanks etc. Probably more such things are published in a year than all the fiction published in a decade. And a lot of it is published in the public domain.

I have 30,000 'books' in one of my libraries - less than 100 of which are commercial publications. And I have not read, nor am I ever likely to read all them from cover to cover. But over the passage of time I may well refer to all of them.

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