For some people, Wikipedia is the answer to everything. The always-growing, crowd-sourced encyclopedia is a source of knowledge and trivia used by undergraduates, assorted professional writers and people trying to settle dinner-table arguments about television shows and vaguely remembered news events. Now a German-based publisher, PediaPress, wants to take that virtual encyclopedia and put all of its articles into print -- in one massive, 1,000-volume set of hardcover books of 1,200 pages each. “We all know that Wikipedia is huge. The English version alone consists of more than 4 million articles,” the organizers of the project say in a pitch for support of the Indiegogo...
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