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List what each person needs, by age

A library built for real people gets used. Start with who lives on the estate and what each of them watches, hears, reads and learns, so you buy and store the right things.

How

1. Make one sheet per person: age, favourite music, films and series, books, games, hobbies and school subjects.
2. Add categories everyone shares: family films, music for work and parties, bedtime stories, religious or cultural content, and how-to videos for estate skills.
3. For young children, plan more read-aloud books, stories and play than screen content. WHO advises no screen time for babies under 1, no sedentary screen time at age 1, and 1 hour or less a day for ages 2 to 4.
4. For school-age children and teens, list the curriculum subjects you must cover and link this sheet to the schooling plan in living-2.
5. Rank each category: must-have, nice-to-have, later. Must-haves go on the first drives you build.

Do these first

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Sources

1. To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more. World Health Organization, accessed 2026-11
2. Personal Archiving: Digital Video. Library of Congress, Digital Preservation, accessed 2026-11

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