Two million to three million of thefive million volumes in the stacks including the more specialized material many of us depend on, and referred to by the library as the "least used" books would be moved to Siberia. (Excuse me, to New Jersey, where the offsite storage is located.) Books would be returned in an optimistically estimated but unreliable 24 hours, by truck, on the traffic-jammed New Jersey Turnpike.
Text volumes soared from 25 billion text messages in the second half of 2004 to 823 billion five years later, according to the CTIA, before moderating more recently.