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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1615 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to get paper that's 1/30 of normal thickness. Some cursory searching indicates that normal paper weighs around 20 pounds per ream or 80 g/m2, and flimsy "onionskin" paper (often found in Bibles) weighs around 10 pounds or 40 grams, so ultra-thin 0.7-pound or 3-gram paper probably does not exist, and a book with 1/30 horizontal scale would have extremely unwieldy thickness.

(I feel like there's a condom joke to be made here somewhere.)

An average book is about 300 pages. If the pages are kept the same size you could reduce the page count to just 30. But the form factor of most books is too wide to fit in a pocket, but if you reduced it by about 1/3 I think it would fit. Which would be a 90 page book.

Round up to 100 pages for some formatting, and white space needs. 100 pages of onion skin paper is about 0.2 inches thick.

Let's say anything beyond 0.6 inches of thickness in a pocket is uncomfortable. Cargo pants feature up to 8 pockets and this imaginary small book reader already doesn't care about looking like a total dweeb. A jacket could offer at least 4 additional pockets.

2 pockets for regular stuff, 10 pockets for books with each pocket fitting three books. 30 books on your person. And a neck chain for the 30x magnifier so it can always be close at hand.

@coffee_enjoyer still seems possible.

Edit: also a fanny pack is an option if the weather is too warm for a jacket or cargo pants. I found a fanny pack that is 6 inches from front to back, so that alone would be enough. If for some reason that is not enough you can always double up on fanny packs, one in the front and one in the back. Fanny packs also adhere to the fashion standards of this hypothetical reader/dweeb.

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