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This weekend, Karl Lagerfeld addressed a room of young French fashion designers on current affairs at the House of Chanel. And to be honest, it sounds pretty crowded. "Today I only collect books, there is no room left for something else. If you go to my house; I’ll have you walk around the books" he said. How many books are we talking about? Oh 300,000. "It's a lot for an individual." Yes, Karl it's also a lot for three public libraries stacked on top of each other but it helps explain this...