The mind boggles at this announcement:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19055342

I'm staring at my bookshelf right now trying to gauge the relative thicknesses of my paperback copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The one is a not particularly thick single volume. The other is three big, fat volumes. Do the math, as somebody from 'tother side ( Read more... )