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Originally Posted by Alisa
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.
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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?