Where does $\frac{3}{2}$ in $1<s\cdot\zeta(s+1) < \frac{3}{2}$ come from?

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In his short note on Euler and the prime harmonic series, Professor of Mathematics Paul Pollack, makes the following intermediate statement about the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ for $s>1$, without explanation:

$$ 1<s\cdot\zeta(s+1) < \frac{3}{2} $$

Question: Where does that $\frac{3}{2}$ comes from?


My thinking ...

He says it follows from a lemma which in his note is the well known inequality:

$$ \frac{1}{s-1} <\zeta(s)< \frac{s}{s-1} $$

.. which he expresses as

$$1<(s-1)\cdot \zeta(s)<s$$

Substituting $(s+1)$ for $s$ would lead to the following inequality:

$$1 < s \cdot \zeta(s+1) < s+1$$

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In the document linked, Lemma 3 provides the general result that $$1<(s-1)\zeta(s)<s$$ for every $s$, but, the Lemma 4 statement which contains the $\frac 32$ restricts $s$ to $(0,\frac12)$. Indeed, in this case, we have that for each $s\in(0,\frac12)$: $$1<s\zeta(s+1)<\frac12\zeta \left(\frac32\right)<\frac32$$