Encyclopaedia Britannica (Full Set)

All of human knowledge in 32 volumes and 58 kilograms/Literature & Writing

The final print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (2010, 15th edition) consisted of 32 volumes containing 65,000 articles across 32,640 pages, weighing approximately 58 kilograms in total. Each volume measured roughly 31 cm tall by 24 cm wide by 4 cm thick. The complete set contained approximately 44 million words and about 4 gigabytes of textual data. First published in Edinburgh in 1768, it survived 244 years in print before going digital-only in 2012. It was the original Wikipedia, except you could not edit it from your couch.