Why is it 50 petabytes? If we are talking content of books in some kind of marku...

		sandGorgon on April 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The... Why is it 50 petabytes? If we are talking content of books in some kind of markup, assuming a heavy duty 10mb per book...It would be 1 petabyte. Reasonably, I would assume it would be a few hundred GB. What is in the data that's making it so heavy - the original scanned images ?

I think it's the scans, yeah, so ~50mb for the scans and ~1mb for the OCR'd version.