is this "Thick" Book for real ?

[Michel Van]

I have no Idea Wat this book is, it's purpose and if this for real...

 

[Arjen]

It's the draft version of Annie Jacobsen's Area 51 book. Before the factcheckers got their hands on it.

 

[blackstar]

It's the draft version of Annie Jacobsen's Area 51 book. Before the factcheckers got their hands on it.

If there were fact checkers, they were drunk.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Actually, it's the short summary of Obama's new tax code.

 

[archipeppe]

I know it.... it is a compendium of all the Italian laws currently utilized.
Every Italian lawyer has one of it. ;D

 

[Caravellarella]

No, you're all wrong; it's my guide to US withholding tax exemption application forms for Authors' royalties ;D

 

[Colonial-Marine]

Did somebody put all of the F-35's C++ code to paper?

 

[Orionblamblam]

It's a printout of Representative Weiner's inappropriate texts, tweets and photos. Jan 1 through March 1, 2011 edition.

 

[SOC]

Looks like one of those Wikipedia hardcopy printouts.

 

[Steve Pace]

That explains the "just what I thought" look on the reader's face...lol

 

[Stargazer]

Perhaps a detailed account of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's frolicking spanning the past four decades?

 

[Caravellarella]

Perhaps a detailed account of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's frolicking spanning the past four decades?

Lol ;D

 

[Michel Van]

the book has same size like the employment contract regulation "small print" of francophone Walloons in Belgium :
but that is split in one foot thick files...

still one question is in my mind: who use book this size ?!

 

[robunos]

Imagine having to scan that for posting as a PDF on NTRS...... :


cheers,
Robin.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Looks like one of those Wikipedia hardcopy printouts.

Do a Google Image Search for "worlds thickest book." Guiness says it's an Agatha Christie collection, at something over 4000 pages; there are also what appear to be photos of a 5000 page Wikipedia bound printout. Both are substantially slimmer than what's shown in the photo in the first post. My guess would be it's either a gag, or some sort of one-off industrial thing.

 

[SOC]

True, but the dude is leaning and reaching out over the table, so the perspective is a bit skewed in the picture. Might not be quite as big as it looks. That, and the apparently blue cover, led me to the Wikipedia thought.

 

[GeorgeA]

Well I'm old enough to remember compiling giant-ass reports on fanfold paper of things like part number references and whatnot. At DEC we even sold a fanfold sorter thingy that attached to the printers. I don't remember reports as big as the one in the picture, but some of the ones I handled were 2000 pages or more.

 

[Nik]

It's the latest change schedule for the 787 ??