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Apparently, the whole Library of Congress collection would take up 10 petabytes of storage, give or take. So the size of the Library of Alexandria can be very roughly assessed at 1.2 microLoC's.

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Some archives store books in image format in addition to text, is that 10 petabytes of pure text?

The LoC has extensive media collections besides the books. The textual collection is on the order of 10 terabytes of data though, not petabytes.

For a moment I was wondering what a micro Line of Code is... then I noticed the mention to the Library of Congress.

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