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No Such Thing As A Fish

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The History of the Bookshelf

According to Google books there are currently 129,864,880 books in the world. If you decided to read them all, you did one an hour, nine to five, sat next to Niagara Falls. Then by the time you finished the last one Niagara Falls would have ceased to exist due to erosion. I'm so too incredible. There was a Christopher Columbus' son who was called Anandog Holon. He invented the bookshelf. The reason he did that is he wanted to read every book that existed in the whole world. And we reckon that when he was born it might have been possible. But by the time he died there was a massive amount of books being printed and

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