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Old 04-13-2009, 02:12 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Alisa View Post
So just for fun, I went and did a quick survey of NYPL's ebook collection. I just counted English language books because it's the largest collection and it's the one most people draw from. For the sake of time, I also just counted PDF because most books are either PDF only or PDF and Mobi. Very few are mobi only. I figure this gets a best case scenario for most patrons. They had about 12K total books. 7601 non-fiction and 4320 fiction. That includes all the PD stuff. That's pretty sparse.
Oh, wow, that looks positively plentiful. Checked my local library and it only had 558 fiction and 583 non-fiction. Hmm, I wonder if it's worth it to subscribe to NYPL or if I should just set aside the money for purchasing ebooks?
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