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You could even make it radiation tolerant by printing it.


Be certain to use acid-free paper [1]. The typical cheap bright-white paper of today will have hard time staying in a good condition in 100-200 years. Ideally go for the ultra-durable cotton-rag paper used e.g. for paper money.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper


Then figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.


From "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"[1]:

  What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been
  discussing? How much space would it take?  It would take, of course, the
  area of about a million pinheads ...  All of the information which all of
  mankind has every recorded in books can be carried around in a pamphlet
  in your hand — and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of
  the original pictures, engravings, and everything else on a small scale
  without loss of resolution.
Need a good magnifying glass, though (:

[1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf


Yeah electron microscopes are very much not "practically indestructible" on the scale of civilization-wide disturbances.

Going from "25,000x -> encyclopedia on pinhead" to "100x (microfilm scale) -> encyclopedia on a 5x10cm metal sheet" is probably a better bet.





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