THE WORLD OF WRITING
Heavy reading
éla Varga, a 71-year-old book-maker in Szinpetri, a small village in northern Hungary, has gained a Guinness World Record for crafting the world’s largest book. The 346-page volume, which is about the flora, fauna, caves and architecture of the region, requires six people and a specially designed machine to turn the pages. The book weighs 1,420 kilos and measures 4.18m by 3.77m, and Varga, who
