OT: Project Gutenberg's CD/DVD Project

[Gerald Combs]

djgoku wrote:
> On 5/12/05, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>I finished my BitTorrent download this afternoon, so
>>I'm going to be a Project Gutenberg DVD seeder for
>>awhile now.
>>
>>9400+ books.  Wow.
> 
> 
> Haven't had a chance to look into all the books, I have only burnt it
> to a dvd. I think it took me about 13 hours to get, now just going to
> try to get to even sharing and might possibly keep it longer.

Are the books compressed or raw?  You could probably fit many times more
 compressed books in the space of a CD than you could uncompressed books
in the space of a DVD.