November 08, 2004
The 40 Year Book
Still mired in the midst of Volume II of Rising Up and Rising Down, I've found (via Seth) an incentive to quickly wrap it up and embark on what will no doubt become a lifelong journey of reading bliss: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
That, or it will just look really impressive on the bookshelf...
Lesee, Kari usually reads about 4 pages a night before she falls asleep in bed. At that rate, she'd get through this in just over 40 years. Better get crackin'!
UPDATE: Check out the "fun facts" kindly provided by Matt B. in the comments (3.36 tons of adhesive, that's a lot of horses!).
My wife works for OUP and they have a set in their front offices and it dwarfs the OED (although it's arguable which is the better read). They handed out this factsheet at the book party that had all these fun facts like:
-5250 sets were printed (315,000 total volumes)
-this required 590 tons of paper
-5 million sheets of paper
-1300 pallets for entire printing
-3.36 tons of adhesive
-587 miles sewing thread in total
Each set weighs 280 pounds and arrives on your doorstep in 15 boxes (4 volumes per carton).
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