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Behold! The largest single-volume book ever created, however the absolute ridiculous size of it makes it impossible to read.

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.

A spokesperson for JBE told the Guardian that ONEPIECE is an “unreadable sculpture that takes the shape of a book – the largest one to date in page numbers and spine width – that materialises the ecosystem of online dissemination of comics.” Whatever it is classed as, there certainly seems to be a market for ONEPIECE – the limited edition run of 50 copies sold out within days of its release on 7 September.

Really cool art idea and surly an investment. Own up. Who here on GAF was one of the lucky few to snag a copy of this "book"

Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read

The 21,450-page volume of manga series One Piece is physically unreadable, to highlight how comics now exist as commodities

www.theguardian.com

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Behold! The largest single-volume book ever created, however the absolute ridiculous size of it makes it impossible to read.

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.

A spokesperson for JBE told the Guardian that ONEPIECE is an “unreadable sculpture that takes the shape of a book – the largest one to date in page numbers and spine width – that materialises the ecosystem of online dissemination of comics.” Whatever it is classed as, there certainly seems to be a market for ONEPIECE – the limited edition run of 50 copies sold out within days of its release on 7 September.

Really cool art idea and surly an investment. Own up. Who here on GAF was one of the lucky few to snag a copy of this "book"

Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read

The 21,450-page volume of manga series One Piece is physically unreadable, to highlight how comics now exist as commodities

www.theguardian.com

Wonder what the auction price of this thing's gonna be?

 

[AJUMP23]

What a stupid thing.

 

[Amiga]

Awkward and uncomfortable but not impossible.

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

Johnny 5 could read it.

 

[Punished Miku]

Pretty cool, but pointless. They're up front about it. Would be a neat collectible for sure, except for that price tag.

 

[Mistake]

 

[UnNamed]

 

[Jennings]

Why would that be impossible to read? You can just sand/grind the spine off with a $5 hand tool and not hurt the legibility of the book one iota.

Then just hole-punch the pages and put them in 3-ring binders.

 

[jason10mm]

Interesting use of someone elses work. If he built this by buying some off the shelf books and assembling them into this "sculpture" then I guess he doesn't owe Oda anything. But if he lifted all that content and printed it himself then sold it, that's IP theft, isn't it? Maybe most of those pages are actually just nonsense or are glued together and that's why it is "unreadable".

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[MDSLKTR]

Could have waited till the series is over at least

 

[AlteredForms]

Whatever it is classed as, there certainly seems to be a market for ONEPIECE – the limited edition run of 50 copies sold out within days of its release on 7 September.

 

[AJUMP23]

One piece = Dumb fans



JK one piece is cool.

 

[Yoboman]

I want it

 

[TTOOLL]

I had to be One Piece related....God I love One Piece!!!

 

[What A Shame...]

 

[Fbh]

Yeah it's definitely more of a collectors item than something intended for practical use.

Would still buy it if I had stupid amounts of disposable income though

 

[H4ze]

Well, what should I say, I kinda want that. Pretty cool.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

butwhy.gif

 

[dr_octagon]

Is this the sequel to War and Peace?

 

[Spaceman292]

Why would that be impossible to read? You can just sand/grind the spine off with a $5 hand tool and not hurt the legibility of the book one iota.

Then just hole-punch the pages and put them in 3-ring binders.

Hassle free

 

[Kimahri]

Why would that be impossible to read? You can just sand/grind the spine off with a $5 hand tool and not hurt the legibility of the book one iota.

Then just hole-punch the pages and put them in 3-ring binders.

It's fascinating to me that "without tools or alterations" actually needs to be added to statements.

 

[thefool]

Vizbig editions are already too big for my taste

 

[yet_another_alt]

But combined with the case that makes this sculpture two pieces, not one.

 

[IDKFA]

Why would that be impossible to read? You can just sand/grind the spine off with a $5 hand tool and not hurt the legibility of the book one iota.

Then just hole-punch the pages and put them in 3-ring binders.

That would make it possible, but at a cost of destroying a sculpture that costs a four figure sum. A sculpture that was also designed to be impossible to read in the first place.

 

[PumpkinPie]

That's really cool IMO.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL.

 

[TheDreadLord]

Tbh, I would buy this monstrosity if money wasn’t a problem.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

That's one of the stupidest wastes of money I've ever seen in my life.

 

[G-Bus]

If I had a lot more disposable income I'd buy.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Don Quixote de la Mancha is stunned. Who will be the brave to read it?

 

[ShinFuYux]

I would reconstruct the box, add the same image and design and just buy the books separately. Maybe reprint the spine as a removable book cover. Now you don't look like an idiot paying 2 grand on something you can't read.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

So it’s…one, piece…

 

[killatopak]

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL.

Can we get much higher

 

[Soodanim]

At least all copies will stay in good condition, that's one advantage of being an unreadable collector's item. Although, there might be some damage when the shelf breaks.

 

[sol_bad]

I just wish Viz would release Deluxe hardcovers like what Dark Horse have done with Berserk and Blade of the Immortal.