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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Inga Parkel

World’s longest single-volume book goes on sale, and it’s impossible to read

Photograph: JBE

A limited edition of the world’s longest single-volume book of the popular manga series, One Piece, has now gone on sale.

With 21,450 pages, the book is physically impossible to read. As it was created with the intention of highlighting how comics now serve as commodities, it’s more of a sculpture than a book.

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