Outside Reading Post

I found an article on the worlds largest book. The book weighs 60 kilograms and and the pages are seven feet wide. Scientist Michael Hawley is the author of the 122 page book about the Asian country Bhutan. Five hundred copies of thus book has been made each costing $10, 000. It is said that if this book were to fall over, it could flatten someone. I wonder why someone would want to make a book so big. It wouldn't be very easy to read, and maybe even difficult to turn pages. A book that big seems strange.