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What are they discarding? It's more of a FIFO isn't it? I assume that when they have no new requests they are scanning books based on some other criteria.

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Perhaps it's best described just as an infinite-sized cache. I would assume they have enough request to very rarely be idle.

Copy-on-write might be a better concept to allude to. You're making a new version, but efficiently, on demand.

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