• sga@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month 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