One of the biggest and most comprehensive online information center is Wikipedia. This information super vault is comprised of more than 75,000 volunteer contributors, who have dedicated their time to work on more than 13,000,0000 articles across 260 languages. Wikipedia was launched in the year 2001 and is one of the most popular reference websites on the internet.

Now a student from the United Kingdom, Rob Matthews has printed out some of the Wikipedia and created the ‘Wikipedia Book’. The book contains 437 prominent articles and it comes up to Rob’s knees in height. Rob Matthews created this book to bring light to the fact that, people nowadays have become increasingly dependent on the internet for information and the role of books has decreased substantially.

According to Rob, “I’m comparing the internet Wikipedia to a traditional encyclopedia by putting it in the same format. I wanted to make a comment on how everyone goes to the Internet these days for information, yet it is very unreliable compared to what it has replaced.”

The book is comprised of the ‘featured articles’ from Wikipedia and the collection itself is one of kind and portable as well. The fact that the book has no electronic connections, is perhaps one of the best attributes of the Wikipedia Book. It means that, people now have access to extremely useful information offline.

Via Labnol & The Telegraph.