http://www.oed.com/public/inside/funfacts.htm Among the “fun facts”: the 2nd edition takes up 540 megabytes. (A life’s work, when expressed in an efficient form (e.g. for music, it would be the score, not the digital recording) fits onto a CD. Even counting stuff like email, you probably produce less than 10 gigabytes of raw data in your life. Your life’s work … fits onto a $100 hard drive. We are minnows.) 13:31