[kmm]

Perhaps that's meant to be 50GB (and that still seems like a serious underestimation)? Just the Bible is already 5MB.

[_Algernon_]

English Wikipedia without media alone is ~24 GB compressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

[kmm]

I don't see how the size of Wikipedia has any bearing on the 50MB figure given for pre-20th century literature by the parent.