Record-Setting Book on Bhutan Is No Light Read

A 133-pound tome about the Asian country of Bhutan that uses a gallon of ink and enough paper to cover a football field has been certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest published book.

Author Michael Hawley, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it wasn’t a book to curl up with at bedtime -- “unless you plan to sleep on it.�

Each copy of “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom,� is 5 feet by 7 feet, 112 pages and costs about $2,000 to produce. Hawley is charging $10,000, to be donated to a charity he founded, Friendly Planet, which has built schools in Cambodia and Bhutan.