[AppyPappy]

“with each page needing 150MB of storage.”

I don’t think so,

[ArrogantBustard]

Try this:

Put an 8x10 photograph on your scanner at home. Scan it at 1200 DPI, and store it in a lossless format. Tell us how large (in MB) the .tiff file is.

I believe that the pages of manuscript they're scanning may be larger than 8x10 ... and they may want more than 1200 DPI to capture the detail of calligraphy and illumination.

[DonaldC]

““with each page needing 150MB of storage.”

I don’t think so,”

That does not sound bad at all for archiving high resolution photography. I would have thought it to be higher.