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[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i have heard somewhere that the amount of books that were there - it took days (closer to week, maybe more, allegedly) for books to burn, that is the amount of stuff that was burnt.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember it being described, possibly hyperbolically, as turning the local river black with ink there were so many texts tossed into water to destroy them.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

sometimes all you can think is how much info we lost, and if we could have progressed at a better rate than current time line