Wikipedia as a Book - Neatorama

What would Wikipedia look like if it were printed out as a traditional encyclopedia? Rob Matthews decided to make it his art project: behold, the 5,000 pages of Wikipedia (featured articles only, mind you) in book form: Link
- via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival

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I'll wait for the movie to come out

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How small would it be if you took the inaccuracy's and outright lies out before you printed it? =?

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what about Wikipedia's own estimate of a 'Enc.Brit.'-like printed edition:

954 Volumes!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tompw/bookshelf

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It's sort of an interesting concept (digital-only encyclopedia in print), but I can't help but wonder why he didn't put it in separate volumes. Surely even the cost of binding would have been cheaper that way, as well.

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I would have thought it would be bigger. I think my World Book encyclopedia took up more room. Of course, it was printed in maybe 18 volumes.

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