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And for the curious / Future Me, that image is the one headlining this article:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/style/richard-macksey-lib...>

<https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/01/16/fashion/VIRAL-LIB...>

It shows the home library of Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Richard Macksey in Baltimore. The full collection size of 51,000 volumes would be somewhat more, I estimate about 10,000 are visible in the image as composed.

To a rough approximation, that image shows the number of documents that fit on my e-book reader.




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