[calder12]

straight text guys, if I remember correctly each character is a byte, 1,024 bytes to a kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte so do the math that makes 1,048,576 characters per megabyte say an average of 6 characters per word you get 174,762 words in a megabyte.

that's a lot of words.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci944596,00.html

look here says a megabyte is a short novel