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[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isnt thatvway to much volume for text? I would imagine every book ever written to be judt a few tb. But I also don't know much about the issue

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

They downloaded the torrents from Annas Archive, which are standing at ~500TB currently. Keep in mind that you're dealing not only with text, but also with books scanned as images, books with lots of illustrations, scientific articles with illustrations and also comic books.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those books couldn't all be in only plaintext. I'm certain that many of them are also scans.

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago