IANAHistorian but I’ve always suspected the contents of the library at its peak were probably exaggerated also. People love a good tragic story, and the better the library allegedly was, the more of a tragedy its loss is. I’ve heard versions of that story where people claim we’d all be living in moon bases right now if it hadn’t been lost because of how far back “all of civilization” was set. I find that a little hard to believe.
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