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Re:Libgen-text: complete Library Genesis, re-packaged as tex... by userbinator on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:07PM (#32543913)
Looking at the details it seems 1.2TB is uncompressed text; but text compresses very well, so it could be much less when compressed.
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Re:Libgen-text: complete Library Genesis, re-packaged as tex... by bhaney on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:15PM (#32543960)
> it seems 1.2TB is uncompressed text

I'm downloading the torrent right now and it's 1.2TB of mostly zip files each containing many txt files. So the 1.2TB does appear to be the compressed size (unless the zip files aren't actually compressed, but that would be weird)

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