World's longest single-volume book released
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...le-to-read

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A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence.

At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book and more of a sculpture.

Priced at €1,900 (£1,640), the book isn’t credited to Eiichiro Oda, the writer and artist behind One Piece, which has been serialised in Japanese magazine Shōnen Jump every week since 1997. It is being sold instead as the work of Ilan Manouach, the multidisciplinary artist who has designed the limited edition volume, which is titled ONEPIECE.

Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural material”, according to the book/ artwork’s French publisher JBE.



Yikes, that is quite insane :O . Although, given that it's physically impossible to read... should it even count as the record-holder? I mean, being read is the entire function of a book :lol: .

Furthermore, the 'authors' argue that there's no copyright infringement here, because their 'book' is impossible to read... which, to me, sounds like "A falling tree doesn't make a sound if there's nobody around to hear it", so I'm not buying that argument. But of course, I'm not a lawyer - so, would their claims stand up in court?
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