The only issue I see is, how could you tell which are those books?

We manage to do this for endangered wildlife too without anyone counting every single specimen; why shouldn’t we be able to estimate how rare a book is?

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phoghed 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And if you instituted this, the commenters of this very website would surely decry it as a prime example of government overstep and waste.

	▲	shimman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Commentators on this web site work for some of the most evil organizations on the planet and have beliefs that 95% of the population rejects. You can safely ignore the YC cohort of devs and be fine.

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eru 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's pretty expensive for the wildlife.

Most rare books are rare because no one cared enough about them. Ie most rare books are rubbish.