Gutenberg Bible
The book that started the printing revolution
Literature & Writing
Books, libraries, and the written word, from single manuscripts to the sum total of human publishing output.
Oxford English Dictionary
Every word in English, plus the ones English stole
War and Peace
Tolstoy's 580,000-word epic of Russian life
Complete Works of Shakespeare
37 plays, 154 sonnets, and about 880,000 words
Library of Congress
The largest library in the world by shelf space
Kindle Paperwhite (2024)
A library of thousands that weighs less than a paperback
Dead Sea Scrolls
The oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Full Set)
All of human knowledge in 32 volumes and 58 kilograms
The Bible (Standard Print Edition)
The most printed book in history, 5 billion copies and counting
Voynich Manuscript
The 600-year-old book nobody can read
Codex Gigas
The Devil's Bible, the largest surviving medieval manuscript
Diamond Sutra
The world's oldest dated printed book, from 868 AD