- TOMES
- Volumes
- Big books
- Heavy reading
- Megabooks
- Books rarely read at the beach
- Doorstop books
- Reference books, often
- Weighty books
- Heavy volumes
- Thick books
- Large volumes
- Far from quick reads
- Library volumes
- Big fat books
- Weighty volumes
- War and Peace and others
- Hefty volumes
- Unabridged dictionaries, et al.
- Many reference works
- Long dissertations
- Weighty works
- Voluminous volumes
- Dictionaries, e.g.
- They're often waded through
- Big volumes
- Books on stands, usually
- They're not quick reads
- References, often
- Reference library array
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the like
- Some library volumes
- Ones with wide spines
- Reference volumes
- Some research aids
- Weighty reading
- Hefty books
- Bookstore biggies
- Heavy books
- Alexandria was famous for them
- Learned works
- Big, heavy books
- Unabridgeds, e.g.
- Ones with thick spines
- Large compendiums
- Units of volume
- Many reference books
- Ponderous texts
- Scholarly books
- Heavy texts
- Oversized books.
- Encyclopedias.
- Most reference books.
- Scholar's armful.
- Large literary efforts.
- Books.
- Heavy reading matter.
- Items in archives.
- Dictionaries, etc.
- Library items
- Big bites for bookworms
- Lexicons, e.g.
- Ponderous works
- Library lineup
- Heavy literature?
- Items in stacks
- Ponderous volumes
- Unabridged editions
- Big leaf containers
- Librarians' loads
- Parts of "complete works"
- Antiquarian's stock
- Fillers of library shelves
- Shakespeare's First and Second Folios, e.g.
- Encyclopedia volumes, e.g.
- Heavy hardcovers
- Thick volumes
- Very big books
- Dickens novels, often
- Michener books, often
- Some scholarly works
- Parts of complete works, perhaps
- Bibliophile's units
- Large books
- Huge reference books
- Books with meat
- Ponderous books
- Books like "War and Peace"
- Unabridged dictionaries, e.g.
- Hard-to-skim items
- Hefty literature
- Weighty reads