22nd May 2014, 10:54 PM
I'm not sure I'd want to be reading until the end of my days on a desert island books that I have already read.
The world's largest book/atlas costs a $100,000 I don't own one, but at 6ft x 4.5ft when I'm bored with looking at it or the weather changes for the worse, I could open it up ram the covers in the sand and use it as a tent.
http://www.millenniumhouse.com.au/title-earth-plat.html
I got a bargain book (£3.20+post) on Ebay a while back - Old England - A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities. Published: London: Charles Knight 1845,. two volumes bound as one about 780 pages, thousands of engravings, lots of text. I keep finding myself just looking at the pictures, A bit of desert island time and I'd read it all too - the odd bits I've looked at are quite readable.
You can see it on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/oldenglandpictor01knig
The world's largest book/atlas costs a $100,000 I don't own one, but at 6ft x 4.5ft when I'm bored with looking at it or the weather changes for the worse, I could open it up ram the covers in the sand and use it as a tent.
http://www.millenniumhouse.com.au/title-earth-plat.html
I got a bargain book (£3.20+post) on Ebay a while back - Old England - A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities. Published: London: Charles Knight 1845,. two volumes bound as one about 780 pages, thousands of engravings, lots of text. I keep finding myself just looking at the pictures, A bit of desert island time and I'd read it all too - the odd bits I've looked at are quite readable.
You can see it on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/oldenglandpictor01knig