August 23, 2005

Units

An article by Edward Wyatt in today's NYT calibrates Paul Anderson's new 1,360-page, four-pound-nine-ounce novel "Hunger's Brides" as weighing as much as 2.5 copies of "The Da Vinci Code". Next, maybe someone will figure out what all the pages laid end-to-end would add up to in smoots.

Posted by Mark Liberman at August 23, 2005 03:12 PM