Another Damned, Thick, Square Book

"Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?" - the Duke of Gloucester to Edward Gibbon, whose magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes over the course of 12 years (1776-1788). I've got all six volumes on my Kindle - no longer thick and no longer square, though perhaps still damned.