Wikipedia Book of 5000 pages

[ananth2ananth]

Wikipedia is now on a printed book as Wikipedia Encyclopedia which contains around 3 million articles in site.The articles included in this book is just 0.01% of the Wikipedia Site.

This book has contains about 5,000 pages and it’s a compilation of 400+ featured articles all picked from Wikipedia. The book is very Huge which is about 1feet 7inches high

 

[Gouri]

Wow, 1feet 7inches high its huge, What could be the price for 0.01% of wikipedia articles

 

[Smith6612]

Wow, that's the biggest book I have ever seen in my life. At least it shows the vast amount of information the Internet has in print

 

[adamparkzer]

Each featured article on Wikipedia takes up an average of 12.5 pages? That's a long article!

 

[slacker3]

I wonder how many trees have to be chopped down for this book...

 

[Gouri]

I wonder how many trees have to be chopped down for this book...

Valid point. So we don't need this. Just we will check on wikipedia site.

 

[adamparkzer]

I wonder how many trees have to be chopped down for this book...

I heard somewhere that an average tree makes about 100,000 sheets of paper (don't know what type or quality, though), so that book would've probably taken about 1/20 of a tree.

 

[slacker3]

indeed an interesting question..

I could have ordered the book to look it up, but the internet is a little bit faster i guess. :tongue:
1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets

0.3 trees = one fat book

 

[Mind-Designers]

Damw that is a large/huge book man .
how you must take it from the shop to your house:nuts:
And i wound't buy it because i can search on the internet, yust a stupid idea if you ask me.

 

[mindstorm8191]

That's a crazy-tall book, totally impractical for reading though. I guess it just shows how much information they've gathered on Wikipedia. I'd rather see a multi-book Wikipedia...

 

[Mr. DOS]

(Pst, mods, all the links in the first post of the thread are spammy.)

See, this is why typical encyclopedias use these things called “volumes”.

--- Mr. DOS

 

[kentmark]

anyone can read this whole book? lol:biggrin:

 

[Zangetsu]

makes me wonder how long it would take to read it

 

[trinity tours and travels]

ya it was nice..

 

[xav0989]

makes me wonder how long it would take to read it

you have from now till the end of times to get started... better go buy it!

 

[cenobite321]

Well by searching info on this I found out you can make your own Wikipedia book with your own selected articles. You can even order the book in physical form or download it in PDF format.

Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book

 

[serverbjb]

:biggthump mantap

 

[stpvoice]

That defeats the object of having the internet then, if you also want what wikipedia has to offer in a physical means. I think it's a little silly.