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A publishing company plans to print [all / every] of the articles from the Wikipedia website. PediaPress hopes to print the [entry / entire] contents of Wikipedia in 1,000 books, each [containing / contains] 1,200 pages. Wikipedia has over 4.3 million [prepositions / articles] and 2.6 billion words. Over 20 million [volunteers / voluntary] have helped to write it. The project will see the [physical / physically] version of Wikipedia on nearly 1.2 million pages of [print / printed] . The page numbers will continue from book [to / and] book and the final [page / book] will be number 1,193,014. PediaPress needs $50,000 to start the project. It wants people to donate money so it can go ahead with the first copy. The company has [already / still] printed number one of the thousand books. It includes the articles from "A" to "A76 motorway".

Many people are [questioning / questioned] why PediaPress wants to print [in / out] such a huge website. They say it will be out [from / of] date as soon as it starts printing. A spokesperson from PediaPress said the company wants to [show / showing] the world just how big Wikipedia [real / really] is. He said: "We think that [a / the] best way to experience the size of Wikipedia is by [transforming / transform] it into the physical medium of books." He added: "Containing the [mist / most] volumes and edited by the largest number of contributors, the printed edition will be a [worked / work] of record-breaking dimensions." The company may take the books on a world tour. After that, it will donate them to a big [publicly / public] library.

 


 

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