1. there are about 130 million books published.
Have you ever wondered how many books have been published?
although it is impossible for us to give an exact figure, according to google, they believe that it is around 130 million books!
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all those books definitely won’t fit on the bookshelf.
check out this episode of judge bex where dolly says her dad makes her read boring books!
2. the best-selling book is the bible.
The Bible is sold all over the world, making it the best-selling book in existence!
There are an estimated 5 billion copies in print worldwide.
wow!
3. the longest book in the world is ‘memory of things past’.
according to guinness world records, ‘remembrance of things past’ is the longest book in the world.
is 9,609,000 characters long, including spaces.
it was written by marcel proust who was from france, in 1912.
4. the most expensive book in the world is ‘the codex leicester’.
Codex Leicester is the most expensive book in the world.
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You won’t believe how much it sold…
The science book sold for $30.8 million in 1994.
It was Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific diary!
5. the first story ever written was “the epic of gilgamesh”.
it is believed that the first book ever written was “the epic of gilgamesh”.
The story was written in the year 2100 BC. c. in cuneiform script, which is one of the oldest forms of writing.
6. the largest collection consists of 1.5 million books!
According to Guinness World Records, the largest private collection of books is 1.5 million.
owned by john q. Benham who lives in Indiana in the United States.
You have to store them in many different places because you don’t have enough space in your house.
They’re in the garage, in your two-story building, and even outside!
7. if you read 20 minutes a day, you will have read 1.8 million words in a year.
20 minutes a day is all it takes.
If you read that long every day for a year, you will have read 1.8 million words.
You’ll be like a human dictionary!
8. you can read books in many different ways, including ebooks and audiobooks!
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There was a time when we only had books to read.
Luckily for us, we can now access them in many different ways.
Whether it’s online, an ebook, or even an audiobook, there are plenty of ways to access your favorite stories.
why not check out our story search podcast?
9. the person who draws pictures in books is called an illustrator.
take a look at your books and they’ll say “illustrated by…”.
The illustrator is the person who draws all the pictures in the book.
Books don’t always have to have an illustrator, there can be several.
if you love art, maybe you would like to work as an illustrator when you grow up!
10. johannes gutenberg invented the printing press.
we have johannes gutenberg to thank for the books we have today.
invented the printing press, which prints words on paper.
this was in 1440.
meant that thousands of books could be produced very quickly!
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