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[@Dinh AaronMk] So question: Are all books and texts and the like completely destroyed? Is it possible that there's still a private collection in some wealthy mansion or kept in the library of a university for keepsakes or "trophies"?
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There might be a few, but they'be probably been looted and destroyed. It's been over a hundred years from today, when general media is shifting towards the digital format; many of the larger libraries would be in the big cities and thus cratered with the rest. Any private selection may have been looted and scattered and forced to endure several centuries worth of mis-care, and if my copies of 1970's edition LOTRs they'd probably be dust in many places, the high humidity of anywhere not the desert of the mid-west would have ensured that in this world.