The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 54, December 21, 2003, Article 15

WORLD'S LARGEST BOOK

  Len Augsberger writes: "Remarkable.  The world's largest book
  has been produced, and QDB did NOT write it."
  Len included a link to article about the book:

  "A 133-pound tome about the Asian country of Bhutan
  that uses enough paper to cover a football field and a
  gallon of ink has been declared the world's largest published
  book.

  Author Michael Hawley, a scientist at the Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology, said it's not a book to curl up with
  at bedtime - "unless you plan to sleep on it.''

  Each copy of "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the
  Kingdom,'' is 5-by-7 feet, 112 pages and costs about $2,000
  to produce. Hawley is charging $10,000 to be donated to a
  charity he founded, Friendly Planet, which has built schools in
  Cambodia and Bhutan.

  Guinness World Records has certified Hawley's work as the
  biggest published book, according to Stuart Claxton, a
  Guinness researcher."

  "Hawley said he's received about two dozen orders for the
  book, which includes an easel-like stand. Early customers
  include Brewster Kahle, the inventor of the Internet Archive
  project, who has known Hawley for years through his
  computer science work at MIT.

  Hawley said his research revealed that the biggest book in
  the Library of Congress was John J. Audubon's 19th century
  "Birds of America,'' which is 2-by-3 feet. "

  To read the full article, see:
  http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/16/largest.book.ap/index.html"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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