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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (2004)	5/2/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

Yep ... stuck with me since I first saw it used by Thedor H. Nelson in "Dream Machines/Computer Lib" ... one of the most seminal computer books of the early 70's. It has the highest vapor pressure of any book I've ever measured ... beating the next highest (Knuth Vol 1.) by more than 50%. You measure the vapor pressure of a book by placing a stack of the books in an accessible location central to the "solvent" community ... you keep adding books to the the stack until they stop disappearing ... vapor pressure is #books/#people within the "container". Many of us have, no doubt, carried out unintentional, uncontrolled experiments in literature vapor pressure without conclusive results.