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Just wondering what do you collect? Is it mainly mirroring things like libgen? I have a decent collection of ebooks/pdfs/manga from reading. But I can’t imagin

• buildbot 2y ago
  No torrents at all in this data, all publicly available/open access. Mostly scientific pdfs, and a good portion of those are scans not just text. So the actual text amount is probably pretty low compared to the total. But still, a lot more than 8TB of raw data out there. I bet the total number of PDFs is close to a petabyte if not more.
  • tylerflick 2y ago
    > I bet the total number of PDFs is close to a petabyte if not more. That's a safe bet. I'v seen PDF's in the GBs from users treating it like a container format (which it is).
    • Maxion 2y ago
      It's probably tens of petabytes if not more, if you count PDFs that'd be private. Invoices, order confirmations, contracts. There's just so so much.
• reaperducer 2y ago
  Just wondering what do you collect? I can't speak for the OP, but you can buy optical media of old out-of-print magazines scanned as PDFs. I bought the entirety of Desert Magazine from 1937-1985. It arrived on something like 15 CD-ROMS. I drag-and-dropped the entire collection into iBooks, and read them when I'm on the train. (Yes, they're probably on archive.org for free, but this is far easier and more convenient, and I prefer to support publishers rather than undermine their efforts.)
  • buildbot 2y ago
    Yep, a good bit of them are from sources like this :)