Notice to all EoHT wiki members (or anyone else who has an opinion), I've been working on the cover for the possible hardcover casewrap printing of the encyclopedia in either late 2008 or 2009. The first draft, made on 04/04/08 by S.C., is shown below. Please post comments or suggestions below the photo or in the bottom threads.

Theory for need to print encyclopedia
● The general drive or force to print the encyclopedia results according to the following logic:

(a) Their exists the general urge or intuition to have a backup stored copy of the EoHT wiki website (in case of system crash).
(b) The Wetpaint site allows site creators to "back up" the contents of this wiki by exporting the pages as HTML into a zip file (to down load to a computer), but it doesn't back up the images.
(c) With this in mind, a stored file of HTML code, seems good but messy if it were to be reloaded somewhere?
(d) Hence, the next logical step would be for S.C. to copy the site, page-by-page, onto a word document, for safety's sake.
(e) If this were to be done, it then wouldn't be that much more work to edit the file, make a PDF file of it, and then print it with an ISBN for Amazon and global distribution (or at least so to have one hardcover copy on S.C.'s bookshelf).
(f) Beyond this, knowing the volatility of webpages, so the knowledge will be preserved for future generations, i.e. the books will be in circulation for others to read, study, and build on, in 100-years or more from now.

Note and suggestions:

(1) The publisher at present will be LuLu, as they are quick, affordable, simple to use, and have excellent quality text-book style hardcovers (no dust-jacket). A second choice might be to fish for a seasoned science encyclopedia publisher, e.g. McGraw-Hill.

(2) As to printing costs, S.C. will fund the ISBN fees, printing costs, advertising, etc.

(3) As to retail price, most scientific encyclopedia cost between $100 to $500 dollars. There seems to be only two other "thermodynamics" type encyclopedias published (or available):

● The 2006, 604-page, 2-volume Encyclopaedia of Thermodynamics (volume 1: thermodynamics systems, volume 2: thermodynamic laws), shown adjacent, at a cost of $241 dollars (or $0.40/page).

● The 2002, 620-page Encyclopedia of Thermodynamics and Electrified Interfaces, shown adjacent, is $505 dollars (or $0.81/page).

● The 2004, 5,373-page, 6-volume Encyclopedia of Energy, shown below, is $2,395 dollars (or $0.45/page).

A few other comparative examples are below:

● A low-cost example is the 1,744-page, 2-volume, 2004 Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry at $540 dollars (or $0.32/page).

● A mid-sized example is the 3,000-page, 4-volume, 2004 Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry at $1,385 (or $0.46/page).

● A high-end example is the 14,344-page, 15-volume, 2001 Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry at $11,860 dollars (or $0.82/page).

Possibly ours, being between 200-700 pages (a guess, based on the fact that we are currently near the 200-article mark) will fall in this range. On the other hand, depending on when we print, it could go past the 1,000+ page mark into the 2-3 volume range. An idea would be to make a first edition after the biographies, theories, terms, etc., of the top-100 human thermodynamic pioneers are found and written?

(4) As to potential proceeds, the basic goal will be to pay for the cost of the EoHT wiki, to buy more human thermodynamics books for the EoHT wiki, as well as the printing costs. A possibly residual idea, assuming funds are available, would be to donate a number of copies to libraries and schools.