Too Many Books? Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.

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.

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.