i like the idea of a future library. i weep that i will not read any of the books (oh, for some spoilers!) i am delighted they asked margaret atwood to be one of the writers. i love the environmental angle on the project. (and think of the literary criticism that will be written about these books — hoho for reader response eh? — when the time comes!) the only thing i amn’t sure is: would 1000 trees produce enough paper for 100 titles? ten trees per title, does that sound too few or too many? (in small runs, perhaps, and these would, i realise, be 100-year old trees we’re talking about, and assuredly girthy by then, though at least in casual parlance we make much of “killing trees” but how many trees, in fact, go into a book? this is the sort of thing one asks xkcd: what if, no doubt.)