Hit 500k reads on my librear archive and it felt weird

I've been putting scanned community newsletters up on the librear site since January, just old issues from the 80s and 90s that nobody else wanted. Last night the counter rolled past 500,000 total downloads, which is insane because my town of Hays, Kansas only has 21,000 people. Did not expect that many people to care about local history minutiae, but apparently the niche is bigger than I thought. Anyone else have a milestone like this sneak up on them, or is it just me?

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betty1442mo ago

“500,000 total downloads” is blowing my mind. I mean, you said your town has 21,000 people, so that’s like every single person in Hays downloading it 24 times each. That’s bonkers. I collect old train schedules from my county and I thought getting 200 hits on one PDF was a party. You basically have a whole library full of people who are just as weird as you are, and that’s kind of awesome.

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