Do you want to know interesting facts about reading books? Do you want to know which is the smallest book, which is the longest book? And many more facts like this? Then keep reading.
Some you might know, but some will surely surprise you.
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1. The longest audiobook, 50 Lectures, is 115 hours and 43 minutes long.
2. 63,377 books were used to make the largest book pyramid.
3. There’s a word for loving the smell of old books that is Bibliosmia.
4. Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is the world’s smallest book. This book measures 100 micrometers by 70 micrometers.
5. According to a study published in Social Science & Medicine, reading books for at least 30 minutes a day can increase one’s lifespan.
6. Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of something to read
7. A study found that if you read regularly, you are 2 ½ times less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in later life.
8. The first novel written on a typewriter is Mark Twain’s, Adventure of Tom Sawyer.
9. The smell of the book is used for Historical Dating.
10. The current largest library in the world is the United States Library of Congress, which houses more than 38 million books.
11. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is the longest novel that exists.
12. The earliest collection of written articles about medicinal herbs and plants is the De Materia Medica.
13. In the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, books are exchanged as Christmas presents. They spend the rest of the night reading books and eating chocolates.
14. The most published works by one author are 1,084 by L. Ron Hubbard (USA). In February 1934 he published his first work.
15. Game of Thrones (HBO, USA) is the most popular TV show based on a book adaptation.
16. Tome is a long book.
17. Bibliophilia is the love for the books.
18. Bibliophile is the person who loves reading.
19. In an auction, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book was sold for US$14,165,000. It is the highest price that a book has ever fetched at auction.
20. The lengthiest poem ever published is in the Kirghiz folk, The Epic of Manas. According to the Dictionary of Oriental Literatures, this three-part epic runs to about 500,000 lines.
21. The covers of the first printed books were considered artworks. They were covered in drawings, leather, and gold. So there wasn’t a place for the author’s name.
22. The longest title of a book consists of 26,021 characters. Vityala Yethindra (India) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, achieved it in March 2019.
23. John Q. Benham of Avoca, Indiana, USA has the largest private collection of books of over 1.5 million books.
24. The largest book measures 5 m x 8.06 m (16.40 ft x 26.44 ft), weighs approximately 1500 kg (3,306 lb), and consists of 429 pages. Its name is ‘This the Prophet Mohamed’.
25. The most authors reading consecutively is 111, at the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, Ireland, on 15-16 June 2012.
26. The first comic book superhero with superpowers was Superman. It was created by writer Jerry Siegel (USA) and artist Joe Shuster (Canada/USA). It was first published in Action Comics #1 on 18 April 1938 (but dated “June” on the cover).
27. The thickest book published is 496 mm (19.5 in). Gyanjivandasji Swami (India) in Gujarat, India accomplished it.
28. A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters.
29. Although it is impossible to obtain exact figures, there is little doubt that the Bible is the world’s best-selling and most widely distributed non-fiction book.
30. One tree can make 50 books.
31. The first printed cookbook is Bartolomeo Platina’s (Italy) De honesta voluptate et valetudine (On Right Pleasure and Good Health).
32. Chariton’s Chaireas & Callirhoe, subtitled Love Story in Syracuse, is the oldest existing novel.
33. It is widely accepted that the earliest mechanically printed full-length book was the Gutenberg Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany c.1455 by Johann Henne Zum Gensfleisch zur Laden, called Zu Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468).
34. The largest collection of miniature books consists of 3,137 unique miniature books and belongs to Sathar Adhoor (India), The collection was verified in Thrissur, India, on 4 June 2016.
35. The most alternative endings for a book is 1,250. ‘Brand Munchee’ by Ceylon Biscuits Limited (Sri Lanka) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, achieved it in March 2020.
36.The largest book sentence consists of 3,364 books. Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan University Alumni Association (both in Japan) have achieved it.
37. The largest photo book measures 45.00 m² (484 ft² 64 in²).
38.The world’s largest fine for an overdue library book is $345.14 (£203.29). The amount owed two cents a day for the poetry book Days and Deeds checked out of Kewanee Public Library, Illinois, USA in April 1955 by Emily Canellos-Simms.
39. The most books signed by one author in a single session is 6,904, achieved by Vickrant Mahajan (India), in Jammu, India, on 30 January 2016.
40. To prevent stealing books in libraries, they were chained to the shelves.
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