I was told if you have 1000 books you are official library. I just catalog all the books me and my wife have and it came out at 900. If I included books I have duplicates in I would have 913 books. So close but so far away. I look forward to expanding my collection. But at same time I wouldn't mind having this whole collection in ebook form so that I could travel and still have access to all my books.

How many books do anyone here on this instance have?

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Who officiates this? I'm asking because I believe my wife will have close to that number of books on her own, and she'd be tickled to be an official library.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

OOK!

(Translation: the library knows when it becomes official. And the Library knows. All libraries are connected by quantum.)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Does one of the books go into what happened to turn him into an orangutan?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes. I can't remember, it's an early one, probably something with Rincewind, maybe Sourcery? I think it's re-explained in the next book after.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can remember them talking about trying to turn him back and him becoming very angry, but I don't remember how he got turned in the first place.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google says it's in The Light Fantastic

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I read that like 25 years ago in college, so makes sense why I don't quite remember.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Look at the 2 two of us with a fun little rereading assignment ahead!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I think that basically every time he's introduced in a book, it just says that it was some magical mishap. I don't think it's ever really explained in depth, but based on the general goings-on at UU that's probably just because it's not an interesting or significant story. "He was messing around with some spells, and got turned into an orangutan. That's the whole story."

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I don't quite remember this bit, but here ya go.

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Librarian

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago

I believe it is when the weight of the contained knowledge collapses to merge with the L-space wavefunction.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For the USA, the American Library Association has some tips on on how to start a library.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Man no clue that be pretty sweet if that could be a thing.