Text page
A digital file containing one page of plain text characters without formatting or embedded fonts.
3 kBDataEveryday quantities
Text page vs Novel as plain text
What are they, and what does the difference actually look like?
Two things. One honest scale.
Meet the pair
What these two things are
Novel as plain text
The plain digital text of a book stored as an unformatted file, without images or layout.
1 MBDataNovel as plain text has about 333 times the data of Text page.
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Text page3 kBData
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Novel as plain text1 MBData
Bar length represents bytes. The physical sizes of devices are schematic; encoding and compression affect file sizes.
Measurements, assumptions & sources +
Text page
A defined 3,000-byte UTF-8 text page using single-byte characters; formatting and embedded fonts excluded.
Defined examples — our methodology
The marked data is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.
Novel as plain text
A chosen 1 MB unformatted text file. Books vary in length and encoding.
Defined examples — our methodology
The marked data is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.
Change the comparison
Put something else beside it.
Measurement details
Why these numbers?
The visual compares data with data. The records below preserve each value’s basis and caveats.
Text page
3 kBData · example
A defined 3,000-byte UTF-8 text page using single-byte characters; formatting and embedded fonts excluded.
Novel as plain text
1 MBData · example
A chosen 1 MB unformatted text file. Books vary in length and encoding.
- Comparing
- Data ↔ Data
- Relative size
- Novel as plain text is larger on this measurement by a factor of about 333.
How to read the visual
The labelled spans and stored measurements determine the scale; unmeasured illustration details do not.
- Text page is labelled example; treat the displayed value as a comparison anchor rather than false precision.
- Novel as plain text is labelled example; treat the displayed value as a comparison anchor rather than false precision.
There’s always another scale
Follow your curiosity.
DigitalText page3 kBA digital file containing one page of plain text characters without formatting or embedded fonts.DigitalNovel as plain text1 MBThe plain digital text of a book stored as an unformatted file, without images or layout.
DigitalCompressed photo3 MBA compressed photo is a digital image file that has been processed to reduce the amount of data needed to store or transmit it.Digital128 GB phone128 GBPhone storage is the digital memory in a mobile phone used to keep apps, photos, videos and other files.
Digital1 TB drive1 TBA one-terabyte drive is a digital storage device capable of holding large amounts of computer data, such as documents, media and software.Side by side
Another point of view.
