| Platform | Format | Number of Titles | Price (Approx.) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Physical (Leather) | 3 volumes (Collected) | €250+ per book | | Éditions Bouquins (Robert Laffont) | Physical Paper | 6 volumes | €35-50 each | | Amazon Kindle (Public Domain) | EPUB / MOBI | ~250 separate novels | €0.00 - €0.99 | | Eureka / Arvensa Editions | Digital (Premium) | 150+ (Masterpieces) | €1.99 - €9.99 |

The number 2,526 is suspiciously close to:

Why 2,526? It might be a secret homage: 2x2x3x421 – a prime number reminiscent of the lost Pinakes volumes. In Borges’ story The Aleph , the narrator sees all points of the universe simultaneously; 2,526 books would be a finite Aleph.

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