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• Some potentially interesting data: horses per capita in the U.S. and Chinalemmy.zip ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who care about book⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully agree with this comment. It is not only libraries, but the entire publishing ecosystem that needs to change:

  1. Governments could host public servers for books, allowing everyone to download and read them freely.
  2. Authors should also be free to upload their own books and be compensated through tax funding, based on actual downloads or verified readership.
  3. Ideally, this would be supported by dedicated software—or even specialized reading devices—that can measure readership more accurately.
  4. For scientific and technical books, some form of professional review or certification could be used to increase their weight in the system, while purely entertainment content could be weighted less.
  5. Countries that share the same language could collaborate by pooling their book servers, creating shared linguistic knowledge spaces and reducing duplication of infrastructure.