78,990 Public-Domain Books on My NAS: A Six-Day Download
The Need: a big pile of old books, as plain text, on your own disk Maybe you want a private source of classic books for your own projects. Maybe you just don’t want your reading to depend on someone else’s website. Either way, the same question comes up: how big is it, and will it fit on my NAS? For one public-domain library, the answer was 28.1 GiB for 78,990 plain-text files. That fits on a home NAS with room to spare. This post shows the numbers, the commands, and the checks I ran afterwards. ...