Why do those "other people" get a free pass to be "in love with the power of administration"?

In academic libraries, because they are experts in their field.

Please provide a citation supporting this assertion.

No one is stopping you from building your own library.

Someone can ask for a copy in the mail, cheaper than pre-emptively printing and storing thousands of copies of every version of every book.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ref_=search_f...

You need to be more specific in order to make that statement falsifiable.

The longest consecutive sequence of decimals digits found in pi is a sequence of 13 8s. All other digits have a sequence of length 12.

https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html

Block deduplication. This is how Enterprise storage arrays (such as NetApp Deduplication) and local file systems (like ZFS and Microsoft ReFS via Windows Server Data Deduplication) (and normalized databased in general) work.

For a given length of data, considering all possible data of that length, it's impossible for the median length to be shorter than the data length. There aren't enough strings of that length that early in the data.

This is just WOM with extra steps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke)

Takeout?

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16920332?hl=en

Completely forgot about Google Takeout, thanks! Update, found a extension that does the job perfectly, and even supports exporting to other formats!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-exporter-c...