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How heavy is Hardback book?

Hardback book silhouette
600 gweight

A hardback novel weighs about 600 g.

Enter your height to compare yourself with Hardback book.

  • 3× the smartphone (200 g)
  • 5× the banana (120 g)
  • 0.13× a house cat (4.5 kg)
  • 10× the egg (60 g)

How to picture 600 g

Start from something you can see right now. Hardback book is about 3× smartphone. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.

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