Jeff Clavier's Buzzlog

The Internet Archive has one copy of this book, which is 6.7 x 5 feet and weighs 172 pounds. Most impressive, even though this picture does not really provide the perspective.
According to this article:

The 60.3 kilogram book about Bhutan (a country in South-Eastern Asia) has been recognized the biggest book in the world.
Writing it took 4 liters of ink and the amount of paper enough to cover a football field. The author of the giant book is professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael Holey.
Every copy of the book "Bhutan: Odyssey around the Kingdom" is 213.3 centimeters long by 152.3 centimeters broad, has 112 pages and costs about two thousand dollars. Holey is going to donate a part of the sum he will earn selling the book -10 thousand dollars to the charity foundation he established. The foundation builds schools in Cambodia and Bhutan. According to the Associated Press,…

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