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Perhaps that's meant to be 50GB (and that still seems like a serious underestimation)? Just the Bible is already 5MB.


English Wikipedia without media alone is ~24 GB compressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia


I don't see how the size of Wikipedia has any bearing on the 50MB figure given for pre-20th century literature by the parent.




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