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* The Infinity Library of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', has all the publications and data of every world, and has been described as containing the memories of the universe. It's so huge that nobody has catalogued even a small fraction of it, and people wanting to use it for research often form ''multi-week expeditions'' to do so. These are people who can use search magic to speed things up and read several books at once, mind you.
** There's a common bit of fanon that suggests that the Infinity Library is actually connected to one or more of the other entries on this list. When reading Nanoha fanfics ([[Sturgeon's Law|the good ones, at least]]), any scene involving Yuuno and the Library has about a one-in-four chance of featuring a cameo appearance by an oddly intelligent <s> monkey</s> [[Discworld|orangutan]].
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has Library Island, a city-sized underground library so massive that Mahora actually has a school club dedicated to exploring it, with standard club equipment consisting of ''rock climbing gear''. It's known to contain books that make the holder more intelligent, golems, dragons, lakes, ''waterfalls''<ref>that don't cause any water damage to the books behind them!</ref> the roots of [[The World Tree]], and lots of booby traps. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090220123746/http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.11056/page.14
* The Library of Spirits ("Fantasy Library") in the ''[[Read or Die|Read Or Dream]]'' manga has every book ever written, as reading material for the dead. However, it appears on Earth for 1 hour every 10 years, and the living may borrow one book for a 10 year period.
** ''[[R.O.D the TV]]'' features one of the closed stack libraries mentioned in the real life section. It doesn't look as amazing as some examples of this trope, but damned if that isn't a lot of books.
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