The Project33 CD-ROM contains a 1614 page Adobe PDF document containing every build-up article that was written during the six years of construction.

During the build I had numerous people asking or encouraging me to put the project out as a book, in printed form. I chose instead to distribute the article in a printable file that allows end-users to print it themselves. Here’s why:

If you’re going to print the entire PDF file one-sided (1-sheet per page) you better pick up 4-500 sheet packages of paper. You’ll use over three and a half of them! Oh, and get a few ink cartridges while you’re at it because you’ll probably go through a few.
 

If you print it two-sided (front and back) then expect to use about 807 sheets. Even at that, the stack of paper will be about 3-1/2” tall when you’re finished! If you decide to hole-punch the pages and place them in a 3-ring binder, make sure to get a 4” thick binder because the more common 3” ones won’t hold it all!

Just think of how much useful information is contatined in this book. I had no idea it would be this large.

I went to Kinko’s to see what it would run to have them print a copy. I was shocked to hear a quote of $90 for 2-sided with holes punched but even more shocked to find out that that was for black and white! Their bid for full color was over $750 – ouch!

Most of you will probably never print the entire file. With a PDF you have the ability to print only the pages you need and the forests of the world will have a lot more trees because of this, but I have to say that it’s pretty impressive to see this much printed out in one big stack.