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Shouldn't it be the Larger Hadron Collider?
You're taking up 63 megabyes per book?
Yep. These are scans. Born digital content and manually proof read stuff like Project Gutenberg is of course much smaller, but for images of each page for 100 to 1000 pages 63 MB is about average.
it is like an article featuring a new sports car that does not mention its horsepower.
To put in a way that slashdotters may understand, it is like an article featuring a new processor that does not mention it's clock speed.
"In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. Well these images make the point very well. Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"