What is the largest book you have ever seen?

[aimeeandbeatles]

This question came to mind. I have this giant Canada Election Results book that weighs probably around 10 pounds. I forgot where I got it. It's very heavy and makes a pretty useful doorstopper. My cat sometimes sits on it to look out the window.

I also have somewhere an atlas which is nearly as big as me. But I'm only 5'2. Surprisingly its not as heavy as it looks.

What is the largest book you have? I don't mean like in a world record book. One you have actually seen.

 

[wilycoyote]

My introductory university physics textbook, which was used for the first four physics classes that I took, is my largest. It has nearly 2,000 pages of math.

 

[Monsterzuma]

It's a Big Big World Atlas

was given this for my 8th birthday

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas

 

[Lillefix]

The first that comes to mind is one I saw in the technical library in the university I went to in Trondheim. It always lay open on display, and I think it was something about art or architecture. I don't know how thick it was, but it was certainly quite wide and tall.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The first that comes to mind is one I saw in the technical library in the university I went to in Trondheim. It always lay open on display, and I think it was something about art or architecture. I don't know how thick it was, but it was certainly quite wide and tall.

That is what I mean from my atlas. It is wide and tall but not very thick compared I would estimate two inches or so (I'm still not good at centimetres). But it still does not fit on my shelf even sideways. Actually its here in the room and if I can find a measuring tape I will post the size of it.

Its a National Geographic atlas 4th edition.

 

[JohannaK]

Hmmm. I'm not sure of which, but I'm pretty sure it was one by Ken Follett.
The Pillars of the Earth weighted about 1.5 kilos, and Fall of Giants is twice as large as the former is, but doesn't weight as much as expected.

 

[GinandTonic]

There is a gigantic Koran in the British Library, something like two foot square pages and absurdly fat.

 

[Verarde]

My Webster's Third Dictionary.

 

[mech654]

My AP European History textbook which was about 1,000 pages.

 

[Quintillus]

For one single-bound book? Probably the unabridged dictionary in my high school's library. Every word in the English language plus its definition, in font that you can read without a magnifying glass, adds up pretty quickly.

If we count multi-volume books, of course it's going to be something like Encyclopedia Brittanica.

My AP European History textbook which was about 1,000 pages.

Was that the one by R.R. Palmer? That was a pretty good-sized book, with a lot of material.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I have a single-bound volume of four of Darwin's books: The Voyage of the Beagle, On The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. It is just over 1600 pages.

 

[madviking]

Since the pages aren't numbered, and it's in appendix form, I don't know how many pages are in it.

I got it at a book sale for about ten bucks.

 

[Antilogic]

My copy of Voet & Voet's biochemistry textbook is about that large, and I have terrible memories of lugging that book all over campus.

Obviously, the atlases and dictionaries in the library are much, much larger. I've never had to haul them around, though.

 

[GinandTonic]

For one single-bound book? Probably the unabridged dictionary in my high school's library. Every word in the English language plus its definition, in font that you can read without a magnifying glass, adds up pretty quickly.

Every word in the english language runs to 20 phone directory sized books. Hell the 3rd edition is predicted to double the number of words defined again.

 

[Leoreth]

It's a Big Big World Atlas

was given this for my 8th birthday

I had the exact same atlas as a child

 

[mech654]

Was that the one by R.R. Palmer? That was a pretty good-sized book, with a lot of material.

Yes it was. I also enjoyed the book.

 

[Veles]

Printed Wikipedia, of course.

 

[madviking]

My AP European History textbook which was about 1,000 pages.

Yea, I also read that. It was good; I kinda want a copy of my own.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

The biggest book I've seen is my grandparent's bible. It took up a good-sized moving box, all on its own.