Doorstopper: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
(update links)
(Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9))
Line 64: Line 64:
* During the Ming Dynasty at least 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, working on the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters. There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.
* During the Ming Dynasty at least 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, working on the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters. There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.
* ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of English grammar, clocks in at 1860 pages (and you thought your English class was hard).
* ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of English grammar, clocks in at 1860 pages (and you thought your English class was hard).
* The ''[[wikipedia:Physicians' Desk Reference|Physicians' Desk Reference]]'', a pharmaceutical reference, is provided annually, for free, to practicing physicians (at least in the United States). Because this information is available electronically, the ([http://www.tkshare.com/Image3/200932219283735977801.jpeg enormous]) books are frequently given away, or used as literal paperweights and doorstoppers.
* The ''[[wikipedia:Physicians' Desk Reference|Physicians' Desk Reference]]'', a pharmaceutical reference, is provided annually, for free, to practicing physicians (at least in the United States). Because this information is available electronically, the ([https://web.archive.org/web/20111229021438/http://www.tkshare.com/Image3/200932219283735977801.jpeg enormous]) books are frequently given away, or used as literal paperweights and doorstoppers.
* The Oxford Classical Dictionary Third ed. is about 6 cm thick and has over 6000 entries on ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations if you ever needed a complete reference.
* The Oxford Classical Dictionary Third ed. is about 6 cm thick and has over 6000 entries on ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations if you ever needed a complete reference.
* The Meyers Konversationslexikon: well over 30 volumes, 16 cm wide, 7 cm thick, 25 cm high, all around 1000 pages, 3 mm writing height in fracture, printed in 1906. It's an encyclopaedia on about everything know back then along with facsimiles, maps, tables and other pictures.
* The Meyers Konversationslexikon: well over 30 volumes, 16 cm wide, 7 cm thick, 25 cm high, all around 1000 pages, 3 mm writing height in fracture, printed in 1906. It's an encyclopaedia on about everything know back then along with facsimiles, maps, tables and other pictures.
* Somebody decided to print and bind part of the English [[Wikipedia]]. [http://weeklydrop.com/2009/06/wikipedia-book/ This] was the result. (And this book contains only 2,500 articles, while the English Wikipedia has now (December 2009) a thousand times more.
* Somebody decided to print and bind part of the English [[Wikipedia]]. [http://weeklydrop.com/2009/06/wikipedia-book/ This] was the result. (And this book contains only 2,500 articles, while the English Wikipedia has now (December 2009) a thousand times more.
** As of the 19th of March, 2011, Wikipedia totals [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes 2,017,207,956 words across 3,589,338 articles], which would require 1513 volumes to print.
** As of the 19th of March, 2011, Wikipedia totals [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes 2,017,207,956 words across 3,589,338 articles], which would require 1513 volumes to print.
* The unabridged edition of William Vollman's "calculus of violence" ''[http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/vollmann/vollmann.html Rising Up and Rising Down]'' weighs in at 3,352 pages across seven volumes.
* The unabridged edition of William Vollman's "calculus of violence" ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614130205/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/vollmann/vollmann.html Rising Up and Rising Down]'' weighs in at 3,352 pages across seven volumes.
* The printed version of ''Chemical Abstracts'' filled whole bookshelves (the company tossed in the towel as of Janurary 1, 2010 and is now only offering the publication electronically) considering the book provides overviews for over 50 million chemical substances, their invention, production, uses, patents, properties; the same for 60 million proteins and DNA sequences; along with a subsection devoted to summarising all major scholarly publications on chemistry from the past 103 years... and is all daily updated.
* The printed version of ''Chemical Abstracts'' filled whole bookshelves (the company tossed in the towel as of Janurary 1, 2010 and is now only offering the publication electronically) considering the book provides overviews for over 50 million chemical substances, their invention, production, uses, patents, properties; the same for 60 million proteins and DNA sequences; along with a subsection devoted to summarising all major scholarly publications on chemistry from the past 103 years... and is all daily updated.
** One of their sales agents managed to crash the CAS servers once with an demonstration. He explained how to do an complex search. And all ten people in the room pressed enter at the same time; cue general computational blackout at the CAS mainframe.
** One of their sales agents managed to crash the CAS servers once with an demonstration. He explained how to do an complex search. And all ten people in the room pressed enter at the same time; cue general computational blackout at the CAS mainframe.
Line 308: Line 308:
* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' by Edmund Spenser; over 1000 pages of verse poetry. And, like Chaucer, he didn't get close to finishing it before [[Author Existence Failure]]; he planned 24 'books', and finished only 6 of them.
* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' by Edmund Spenser; over 1000 pages of verse poetry. And, like Chaucer, he didn't get close to finishing it before [[Author Existence Failure]]; he planned 24 'books', and finished only 6 of them.
* [[Timothy Zahn]]'s "[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]" clocks in at 720 pages in one paperback version, though other versions and the hardcover aren't quite as pagy. Shorter than most of these, but that's the longest novel of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] to date. The German version was split into two separate books.
* [[Timothy Zahn]]'s "[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]" clocks in at 720 pages in one paperback version, though other versions and the hardcover aren't quite as pagy. Shorter than most of these, but that's the longest novel of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] to date. The German version was split into two separate books.
* The [http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Trouble%27s_Tales ''Trouble's Tales''] series is probably the closest thing the [[Furry Fandom]] has to an original literary epic, with the individual chapters alone being at long has most novels, and with good reason! One of the advertising taglines for it accuratly states that the series has ''everything'', and by "everything" we do mean ''everything''. (Mostly every kind of sex ever conceived by mankind, and several conceuved by wombats, but also a fair dose of action and sci-fi.) Luckily, every single story is available to read for free online, and can only be bought in physical form via an online retailer who makes them one at a time—because, well, it's huge!
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926111603/http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Trouble's_Tales ''Trouble's Tales''] series is probably the closest thing the [[Furry Fandom]] has to an original literary epic, with the individual chapters alone being at long has most novels, and with good reason! One of the advertising taglines for it accuratly states that the series has ''everything'', and by "everything" we do mean ''everything''. (Mostly every kind of sex ever conceived by mankind, and several conceuved by wombats, but also a fair dose of action and sci-fi.) Luckily, every single story is available to read for free online, and can only be bought in physical form via an online retailer who makes them one at a time—because, well, it's huge!
* The collected ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' by Stephen Donaldson could stop bullets.
* The collected ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' by Stephen Donaldson could stop bullets.
* Possibly the ultimate single-volume Doorstopper: [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25748 Someone] has published [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''The Complete [[Miss Marple]]'' in one volume of 4,032 pages massing 8 kg!
* Possibly the ultimate single-volume Doorstopper: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130104011154/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25748 Someone] has published [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''The Complete [[Miss Marple]]'' in one volume of 4,032 pages massing 8 kg!
** To visualize that, the book is ''over a foot thick.''
** To visualize that, the book is ''over a foot thick.''
* Samuel Delany's ''[[Dhalgren]]'' runs to about 800 pages.
* Samuel Delany's ''[[Dhalgren]]'' runs to about 800 pages.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Doorstopper"