What you see here is the world’s largest book! “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom” is five feet across, seven feet hight, and weighs in at 130 pounds. Created by Michael Hawley, at the MIT Media Lab, 500 of these behemoths are being sold to benefit charity. The book documents Hawley’s expeditions in Bhutan over a span of four years. Primarily composed of photographs, each book uses a gallon of ink, and was bound by hand. Hawley was helped by technical teams from Kodak, Adobe, FedEx, Microsoft, Amazon.com, HP, and Dell. Essentially every part of the book represented some feat of publishing- from pages that were too large for normal computers to handle to a custom made bookshelf.

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