Whats the world record for the longest book?
BEIJING, China — The world’s largest nonfiction work and its earliest encyclopedia is going to be given a new lease of life when it gets reprinted for the first time in 600 years. The Yongle encyclopedia (Yongle Dadian) — made up of 22,877 volumes in 11,095 books — is being republished by the Beijing Library Press, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. The move came as experts from China and around the world gathered in Beijing to attend a global meet to mark the 600th anniversary of the compilation. There they talked about ways of preserving and publishing the “cultural treasure,” which is 12 times the size of the encyclopedia put together by the French author Diderot in the 18th century, and which experts predict hit the scales at 40 tons. http://edition.cnn.com/…
