Printed Wikipedia, of course.
That's cheating!
(Yes, I thought you had to physically see and handle a copy for it to count.)
What is the largest book you have ever seen?
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That's cheating!
(Yes, I thought you had to physically see and handle a copy for it to count.)
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
It's a Big Big World Atlas
was given this for my 8th birthday
I think I remember this. God, I loved maps as a kid. Still do.
Also, it the Wikipedia one says that it's free. I want my copy!
World Without End (the sequel of Pillars of the Earth) has a few hundred more pages than Pillars of the Earth.
The largest book that I remember is a massive Oxford English Dictionary that I have in my house.
It's a Big Big World Atlas
was given this for my 8th birthday
Same here! We're the best!
My grandparents have a massive dictionary that's probably about 15cm thick. Of books that I own, I have this reasonably large 'Visual History of the Modern World' which is a few hundred glossy pages thick and more than A4 sized. Fairly heavy. Perhaps not a book in the true sense.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
My parents have one of those big old family Bibles that they used to club Protestants to death back in the old country. Or something, I'm a little foggy on the history. At any rate, it's about the size of a middling Hebridean island.
eduhum
Aahh the gold old days...
Don't know why, but when I saw this thread, i said to myself:
I'm pretty sure the OP must be Aimeeandbeatles
And it was
I'm pretty sure the OP must be Aimeeandbeatles
And it was
Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
When I was studying in the US, there was a big show regarding a book about Bhutan which was supposed to be one of the biggest in the world. A pretty largebook, never verified that claim though.
Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
This it:
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Henry Darger
I own a copy of this:
(Or actually two copies, as I inherited another one). It fits in one standard banana box, but is printed on quality paper, so the skinniest boys aren' able to carry it.
The thickest one volume book I've got is probably "How and where to find it" from time before Google.
One of the libraries I frequent has it's "maiora" section in the reading room, that is, books that are too big for ordinary shelfs. The biggest by area that I remember now, was the linguistic map of German speaking peoples.
Spoiler :
(Or actually two copies, as I inherited another one). It fits in one standard banana box, but is printed on quality paper, so the skinniest boys aren' able to carry it.
The thickest one volume book I've got is probably "How and where to find it" from time before Google.
One of the libraries I frequent has it's "maiora" section in the reading room, that is, books that are too big for ordinary shelfs. The biggest by area that I remember now, was the linguistic map of German speaking peoples.
schlaufuchs
Break My Heart
The largest book I ever read was Norman Davies' Europe: A History. The text without the appendices was some 1600 pages, with appendices it was closer to 2000. A little too Polish-obsessed (Davies is a Polish history specialist, after all), but it was still a decent overview of European history.
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.
That's the Oxford one, right? I'm not sure if this was an Oxford one or a smaller unabridged dictionary (which, I know, doesn't make any sense). But it was also taller, wider, and thicker than any one of those pictured books, with thin pages and small (though readable) font.
I didn't personally verify that it contained every single word, though.
It was a good one, albeit a little dry in spots. I think my copy was the 8th Edition although we had the 6th through 8th in the classroom, and the 9th was out at the time.
Pangur Bán;11327016 said:This it:
That would take the cake.
amadeus
Serenity now
United States Code. It's sort of cheating since it isn't one book, but many, being over 200,000 pages long.
Mise
isle of lucy
You don't know how happy this statement makes me.
1. Finnish bananas come in boxes
2. "Banana boxes" are common enough in Finland that they have a "standard" size
3. Everyone in Finland intuitively knows how big a "standard banana box" is
4. "Banana box" is a common form of measurement in Finland
If someone in this country answered the question "how big is it?" with "hmm, about the size of a standard banana box", that person would receive some strange looks.
Do advertisers use this as a selling point?
Salesman #1: "And just look how small it is, Mika!"
Salesman #2: "That's right, Kimi, it fits right into a standard banana box!" *inserts into box*
Crowd: "ooooOOOOOoooooh!"
I thought banana box was a SI unit. 
They aren't sold in boxes here, but they come to stores in boxes. The stores give them away, and people use them when moving etc. all the time. I thought it's like that all over the world. Anyhow the standard is that the contents weight 18.14 kg (=40 lb) and the dimensions are about 50x40x25 cm (they do vary a little).
at the names of the example.
They aren't sold in boxes here, but they come to stores in boxes. The stores give them away, and people use them when moving etc. all the time. I thought it's like that all over the world. Anyhow the standard is that the contents weight 18.14 kg (=40 lb) and the dimensions are about 50x40x25 cm (they do vary a little).
at the names of the example.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
That is the book Swedes stole from us during the 30 years war and refuse to give it back
Smellincoffee
Trekkie At Large
The Alabama State Constitution is supposed to be fairly huge, thanks to the number of amendments -- over 800 at this point, most of them weighing in on local issues like bingo permissions. 
Can't find an actual picture of it; I've heard it's difficult to get a copy of the book in print.
Can't find an actual picture of it; I've heard it's difficult to get a copy of the book in print.
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