This could be a legitimate structural concern, paperbacks are usually under a pound, but textbooks and reference material can be many pounds. So the range would be anywhere from 9000lbs to maybe 40,000lbs (picture a lawyers office).
Fuck ai sidenote: check out the search assistant answer (thought I was using noai with duckduckgo)
The average weight for paperback books typically ranges from 50-80 lb (75-120 gsm), with most novels using around 50-60 lb uncoated paper. This weight helps keep the book comfortable to hold while ensuring durability.
I, too, am comfortable holding a paperback book weighing 80lbs. It makes it easy to haul around in my cargo shorts.
That’s why they are called cargo shorts!
Another case of missing units. It is mass per area. Not just lb. At least we could argue that the abomination “gsm” stands for grams per square meter or simply g/m²