This could be a legitimate structural concern, paperbacks are usually under a pound, but textbooks and reference material can be many pounds. So the range would be anywhere from 9000lbs to maybe 40,000lbs (picture a lawyers office).
Fuck ai sidenote: check out the search assistant answer (thought I was using noai with duckduckgo)
The average weight for paperback books typically ranges from 50-80 lb (75-120 gsm), with most novels using around 50-60 lb uncoated paper. This weight helps keep the book comfortable to hold while ensuring durability.
I, too, am comfortable holding a paperback book weighing 80lbs. It makes it easy to haul around in my cargo shorts.
That’s why they are called cargo shorts!
I assume that’s the “weight” of the paper, I.e. how thick the pages are.
Another case of missing units. It is mass per area. Not just lb. At least we could argue that the abomination “gsm” stands for grams per square meter or simply g/m²
Also the fire hazard, depending on the size of the apartment but 10000 books sounds like a lot of books for 1 NY studio aprtment
7-32 ounces for the average book. https://measuringly.com/how-much-does-book-weigh/
So much of this story stinks. A studio one block away from Central park? At 600 square foot or 56 square metres? My whole 3 bed house is only 24 square metres bigger! His job is running a literary publication he set up himself? And at the end we see a much larger apartment which also looks high end? Where is he getting the money for all this!?
This just sounds like a pretentious rich kid moaning about his extremely privileged life in Manhattan.
