How big? Well, you could easily squish rodents or small dogs with it, as well as putting it to a host of other non-literary uses that big, heavy objects are good for.
Such as bludgeoning children...
...or little people*
*Nothing against children or little people, it's just that the book is heavy, so it would take a lot more effort to lift it up high enough to bludgeon an adult of even average height, so if you have to bludgeon someone with it you might as well go with someone close to the ground.
Now, I need to make it clear that I'm "not" advocating any of these uses (you wouldn't want to damage it or get blood on it, after all, though real blood might be a nice touch to accompany the blood spatter illustration that is the seminal image from the book), I'm just attempting to illustrate a point about the book's size.
What I do advocate is actually reading it, because if you did, you would see that in addition to being oversized, Absolute Watchmen has been printed on much better stock than any previous collection, the color has been redone digitally, making it much more crisp and vibrant and just helps make it look more polished (though there is such a thing as gilding the lily), and it includes script samples and the original proposal written up by Alan Moore (back when he was still hoping to use the then recently-acquired Charlton characters such as Captain Atom and Blue Beetle), and some original character designs by Dave Gibbons.
So yeah, big and heavy enough to use for pest disposal or to discipline your children and/or recalcitrant little people, but also good to read.
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