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According to Wikipedia, the physical holdings of the Library of Congress total 33 million distinct books worth about 15 terabytes.

So quite a way to go from ~2k volumes.




It would be more useful to compare the LoC with the combined text, graphics, and other applicable media of every Wikimedia site.


I feel like the text is the most important part for an encyclopedia. Some images are needed, but not a huge number.




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