[gilded-lilly]

Why not encode them microscopically, using some kind of easily decipherable code?

The main issue would be loss of language. You’d end up with a gigantic Rosetta Stone of indecipherable gibberish.

Better would be to convert all literature into hieroglyphics, or graphic novels (or both), and then etch them microscopically.

[areoform]

This size will have microscopic features! There is probably a balance between ease of scanning/technological sophistication required to see the pages, cost of etching, and the number of plates overall.

The Long Now Foundation has extensively studied the language loss problem and arrived at a fairly elegant set of solutions.

https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the...

[6510]

Encode in dna and do roaches with random pages on their back.