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This library has every book ever published.

Tom Scott

This library has every book ever published.

Tom Scott visits the British Library, a UK legal deposit library that receives a copy of everything published, and discusses storing so much material, including the web archive.

HN commenters cite it to explain why legal deposit should be complete rather than selective.

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