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One of my favorite thought experiments is imagining being able to bring someone forward from history, and see his reaction to modern times. Showing Ben Franklin a modern home, or showing Gutenberg a library.

Wouldn't it be lovely to see Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and his reaction to Obama's election?

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OK. And my local library says it has 140,000 works, so nearly twice Alexandria's collection. Of course, that count includes things like "Goodnight Moon".

At the college where my dad used to teach, they were proud that they had over a million volumes...but, to reach that million, they had to buy a lot of crap. I worked there one summer, and they actually had Cliff's Notes.