Thursday, August 05, 2010

I Thought I Had That Many in my House

Official Google Blog: You can count the number of books in the world on 25,972,976 hands: "Ever wonder just how many different books there are in the world? After some intensive analysis, we've come up with a number. Standing on the shoulders of giants—libraries and cataloging organizations—and based on our computational resources and experience of organizing millions of books through our Books Library Project and Books Partner Program since 2004, we’ve determined that number.

As of today, we estimate that there are 129,864,880 different books in the world."

3 comments:

Ted the Younger said...

No, you probably have more, most of 'em by Milton K. Ozaki and Harry Whittington . . .

Cap'n Bob said...

No wonder mine goes unnoticed.

Anonymous said...

You know George has that many in his basement.

Jeff