http://www.colophon.com/ediblebooks/photos.html
-- When I was a kid my mom could say don't eat while you read.
search big book at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~boewoe/s.htm
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/11/how_to_be_successful_stephen.htm
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAe4xqG2hCU/SumXK0ZM90I/AAAAAAAAAkE/xAXos3Kmsq4/s400/bigbook2.jpg
from:
http://www.bookpatrol.net/2009_10_01_archive.html
http://www.continuum.utah.edu/2007summer/feature3.html
http://www.keiththomassound.com/images/john_craig_big_book_1.jpg
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/kingscourt/bigbooks.htm
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/bigbook.html
http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/digital_big_books.htm
http://www.investinkids.ca/newsroom/media-centre/photo-gallery.aspx
http://bloggingatbriggs.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/big-library-loan/
http://www.hangingbigbookeasel.com/big_book_holder.htm
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Book.svg
V 054 is about 500 8.5x11 pages - at maturity it could look like this. What does maturity means. It means when each new paragraph added sort of removes another paragraph.
Say 1 Big Book volume was delivered every month to you and there was 1000. That's 12 a year so 85 years subscription. That seems like too long of a timeframe. 50 a year is 20 years... 10 years seem more appropriate for much of human knowledge. In 10 years we discovered new planets, made Pluto not a planet,... our understanding of the brain has evolved... a few new countries are created or deleted or renamed. Something sounds right about 10 years. It provides a cushion for the traditional non-fiction before it gets distilled into a larger form. Particularly if Mickey Mouse copyright can be perpetually maintained by Disney (an example), then we need an alternative form where credited appropriation of a particular image with Mickey Mouse (as opposed to republishing integral work) becomes a legal commodity.
http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/2009/12/big-book-list-of-2009.html
-- with architecture
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2008/03/the_big_book_of_ted.html
--What would be a narrative one could create to tie all TED conference speakers into a cohesive point-of-view set