Page height4.2 tenths m
2.7 billionCarbon atoms
1.57Dinner plates
About 42 cm (folio format)
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Gutenberg Bible
The book that started the printing revolution/Literature & Writing
The Gutenberg Bible, printed by Johannes Gutenberg around 1455, was the first major book produced with movable type in Europe. About 180 copies were printed, of which 49 survive. Each copy is two volumes totaling about 1,282 pages. A complete copy sold at auction in 1978 for $2.2 million, and today would be worth tens of millions.
Measurements
Page width3 tenths m
1.5 thousandthsSuez Canal widths
15Grape diameters
13.6Almond lengths
About 30 cm
Weight (both volumes)14 kg
4.7 billionFruit fly eggs
338 millionthsBoeing 737s
96.6Baseball weights
Estimated for paper copy
Spine thickness (both)1.5 tenths m
7.5Grape diameters
1.5 tenthsBelt lengths
11.8 billionthsEarth diameters
Combined thickness
Text content4.5 million B
2.4Seconds of 4K Netflix
1.13MP3 songs
8.3 thousandthsZoom meeting hours
About 4.5 MB of text
Age (as of 2026)18 billion s
858 millionMammal pees
400 millionElevator rides
About 571 years since 1455