I'd love Logos to be able to tell me how many pages I have in my library. And how many linear feet that translates into.
In my library:
~1,954,835 pages. 10,254 resources counted. Unknown error margin.
Taking 10 inches as the average page length, that equates to...
308.5 miles
496.5 km (kilometers)
Taking 10 inches as the average page length
I don't think that's how one normally computes "linear feet" of book space. The question is how much space would these books take up on bookshelves if they were in print? That means you need to use an average figure of how many pages per inch (or foot) of a book's thickness. Found in a book online about libraries, "Sample counts in library book stacks have yielded average figures of from 3,000 to 8,000 pages per foot for different kinds of material." So let's say the average is 5500 pages per foot.
Your library then would take up about 1,954,835 / 5,500 feet = ~ 355 feet, 5 inches. That's about 24 large Ikea Billy bookcases!
That's about 24 large Ikea Billy bookcases!
So Billy has conquered North America as well. [:D]
That's about 24 large Ikea Billy bookcases! So Billy has conquered North America as well.
So Billy has conquered North America as well.
Yup. I have 14 of them.
The question is how much space would these books take up on bookshelves if they were in print?
Another interesting question is - how long would it take to read them all? [8-|]
Another interesting question is - how long would it take to read them all?
Depends on how fast you read. Some material of course can be read faster than others, and some you'd never read cover to cover but would just use for reference (lexicons, encyclopedias, etc.). So let's do some really rough calculations based on some really rough assumptions. Let's first assume you're only going to read the monographs, commentaries, journals, and magazines. Those make up about 90% of my library. Assuming that's a typical percentage, and assuming the page count in one's library is fairly evenly distributed between those kinds of resources and the other types, that leaves Jannie with about 1,759,352 "readable" pages in his library. I've finished only about 0.3% of the "readable" books in my library (I think I'm probably on the low end), so let's be generous and assume Jannie has already read 5% of his. Then he's got about 1,671,384 pages left to read. My seminary uses the figure of 20 pages per hour to estimate how long it will take students to do their reading. I have found that is fine for fiction and other light reading, but not for difficult theology books, which sometimes I can only read about 5 pages an hour of. So let's go with an average of 10 pages per hour. Then it's going to take Jannie 167,138 hours to read his whole library. Assuming he doesn't do any reading while he's on the job, but only in his spare time, let's say he's able to do 20 hours of reading a week (that's probably pretty optimistic). It will take him 8,356 weeks, or 160 years to finish. And that's assuming he doesn't buy any more books for the rest of his life. Clearly, it's not possible in this lifetime.
It will take him 8,356 weeks, or 160 years to finish. And that's assuming he doesn't buy any more books for the rest of his life. Clearly, it's not possible in this lifetime.
Data from Star Trek could do it. Then again, he was far too concerned with trying to be human to read about pursuing God. It's a pitty that I fall into that same trap frequently as well.
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