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Why does this library have every book ever?

There are six legal deposit libraries in the UK — or libraries that store every book, newspaper, pamphlet, leaflet, magazine, blog post, internet page or other written format ever published in the UK. Why do they store so many things? And how on earth do they find space? In this video, Tom Scott investigates.

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