inothernews:

SHELF LIFE   Alison Prince, of the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, carried a box of books in a new book-storage facility in Swindon, England, Thursday. The facility has the capacity to store about 8.4 million books. (Photo: Matt Cardy / Getty Images via the Wall St. Journal)

This is fucking amazing.

I wrote about the developments on the new Swindon facility when I was a deputy news editor for Oxford University’s student weekly Cherwell. “Reporting” entailed calling one university spokesperson. Ah, the good old days when you didn’t need to call five million places to gather elements for a 400-word story…