jonotrain2

1) You are assuming that the works need to be stored at all. They do not. As long as the same block of text can be located based on the same input, it is just as available as it would be if it were stored on disk or on any other type of storage device you imagine.

2) The PRNG is irrelevant to this point. The article I linked to offers a detailed description of how to generate text without storing it on disk.

3)Your model is identical to JSTOR's, as is libraryofbabel.info's. That's my point - all of these are ways of creating a digital archive (or in your case some sort of quantum archive). The point is that libraryofbabel.info is able to archive more text than your model - more pages of text than there are atoms in the universe.

4)The concepts you should think about more thoroughly are: fiction/reality, existence/nonexistence, actuality/possibility/virtuality. The texts the website contains have a potential existence - each of them can be summoned up at any time. But they do not have the sort of actual existence which would require one or more atoms to be available for the storage of each text. The script capable of generating them all takes up less than a MB.

Consider what Borges says about the impossibility of meaninglessness before feeling confident in such a calculation:

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. It is useless to observe that the best volume of the many hexagons under my administration is entitled The Combed Thunderclap and another The Plaster Cramp and another Axaxaxas mlö. These phrases, at first glance incoherent, can no doubt be justified in a cryptographical or allegorical manner; such a justification is verbal and, ex hypothesi, already figures in the Library. I cannot combine some characters - dhcmrlchtdj - which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god.

This would only be true if the library stored all of its books on disk. It doesn't need to because of the algorithm it uses to generate the books, which is described here: https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html (davegauer linked to this description as well)

You shouldn't think that this means the books do not exist. The concepts of presence and absence which underlie our understanding of existence were long ago inflected by the existence of virtual archives. Any digital archive, like JSTOR for example, exists as a mass of zeroes and ones, and only enters a form intelligible to the human eye once an article is loaded from its reserve. But I doubt anyone would say that these articles don't exist before they are loaded, come into being from nothing when someone opens them, and cease to exist again when they are closed.

Already when Borges envisioned it, the library was more capacious than the universe.