Heavy Reading

Wow, your Holistic Midwifery book sounds like a monster, eden32. I hope that you can find a scale because I am really curious, now. Watch that wrist!

Fortyseven pounds?!? I cannot believe that, buldwgz! Where do you keep it? I bet that you can come up with a lot of uses for something that heavy. I just don't know how to respond to that.

It makes a fantastic paper weight. I keep it in storage acgtually. It's too big to be of any practicality. I mean, who in their right mind would even make a book that big? What would be the point? The people that gave it to me were so proud too, I wish you could have seen them. I was speechless, but mostly because I wanted to cry out of just how sad it was...LOL.

I soooo wish I could have seen your face and the face of the ones who gave you this on the day that it was presented to you, buldwgz. Did they use a hand truck to move it about? How did you transport it? Did you have to hire a truck? Hehe.

Have you ever seen the movie Vacation? There is a scene where Clarke Griswold (Chevy Chase) is ringing a bell in a saloon for service and he has this look on his face that is priceless. I can only imagine that is how I looked.

Yes! I've seen that movie and I do know the scene of which you speak. I know that look. Thanks for the description.

Now, if I only knew what you looked like this would all make sense.


Wait a minute.....you must look like Chevy Chase?!

I agree that the page quality will affect the weight, DeaXyza. I had a bigger book on World War II history that I thought would be heavier, but I was surprised to see that the dictionary was heavier. Different paper.

No worries, smuggeridge, it looks like it's going to be hard for anyone to beat the 47 pound monster that one respondant has reported.

I bet that Lord of the Rings book is cool. Does it have any illustrations in it?

I know bibles are big, but 47pounds! whats it made from?

LOTR is a good book lots of pictures, only problem with it being so big is that you can't really carry it around with you so have to read it at home

Yeah, I can see not carrying it around, but it hey, it would still be fun to read at home.

Those medical books are heavy, teapotmommommerced. My wife still has hers hanging around here.

Wow, that is an impressive sounding book, Erilyn. I can see why you cherish it. I would love to see a book like that.

I love the new highlights added to your Avatar.

Thank you on both counts! I decided to change it a bit and get rid of the black. It's bad enough I have been a bit moody lately, and I don't think the black was helping.

I saw that you're original plan was to have a white background. That would be cool, too. The black was nice, but it was hard to see the whole graphic against the black background.

Yeha I was going to go with the white, but I thought that maybe the colors would be more cheery. you are right it was hard to see against the black. Now you can see the rose a bit clearer.

Yes, I can see the rose. Before, I thought that it was some abstract shape, maybe a box and the butterfly was emerging from a box. That's what I thought. I like all the colors.

Thats not a bad idea actually. I haven't been very creative lately and it has been a while since I have created anything new. You should see some of the ones I used to do. I don't have the right programs for those anymore though. I did sell some of my work before, now its just for pleasure.

Don't beat yourself up. I think that your work is wonderful. I'm proud of myself if I'm just able to get through the day without my computer freezing up, much less creating something like you do.

Oh I didn't mean to seem that I was, I just don't have much creativity lately. I go through times like this when I just can't think of anything to create. I am surprised that I can still write at least a little bit lol.

That's a nifty idea to be able to dismantle your books, whyaskq.:)

Your wife must be quite the colorer, alfie. How many boxes of crayons has she gone through working on your autobiography? I know that you are very proud of her.

I had one of those books once, kfrisk. My roommate in college used his to prop up his bed. The bed had a broken leg, and that book wasd the perfect size for the job.

LoL well that is definitely a good use for it! HA

Those are both hefty books, nerdytina. I would hate to have to carry those any distance. Thanks for adding a bit of weight to the discussion.:)