When was the last time you held a 662-page book? (At least one that wasn’t written by Stieg Larsson.) If you feel it’s been too long since you read something of that size, then start printing out the entire 662 page Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, which was released today.

The report’s purpose is to “provide a historical accounting of what brought our financial system and economy to a precipice and to help policy makers and the public better understand how this calamity came to be.”