Facts on Reading Is A Lifestyle https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/ Recent content in Facts on Reading Is A Lifestyle Hugo en-us 'SWIMS' upside down still looks like 'SWIMS'. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/207/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/207/ 'The Mouse Trap' by Agatha Christie is the longest-running play in history. The play opened in London on November 25, 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/211/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/211/ “Aloha“ is a Hawaiian word that means both hello and goodbye. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/209/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/209/ “Book people” are individuals who have a deep love and appreciation for books. They are often avid readers, collectors, or enthusiasts who find joy in everything related to books—whether it’s reading, discussing, or simply being surrounded by them. Book people often value the worlds, knowledge, and emotions that books offer and tend to connect with others who share this passion. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/451/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/451/ “Book-bosomed” describes someone who is always close to their books, carrying them like a cherished companion and finding comfort and joy in always having a book nearby. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/445/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/445/ “Bookshelf Envy” is a term for that feeling readers get when they see a beautifully organized or vast bookshelf in someone else’s home. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/454/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/454/ “Stewardesses“ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/205/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/205/ “The Stairs of Knowledge” is a staircase near the library at University of Balamand in Lebanon. The 21 stairs were painted after 21 classical books in chronological order. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/362/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/362/ 1 hour audiobook a day equates to 36 books a year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/381/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/381/ 1000 books is considered a library. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/426/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/426/ 1984 was originally titled The Last Man in Europe. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/227/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/227/ 200 million starlings exist today in the US thanks to Shakespeare. In 1890 an American, Eugene Schiffelin, embarked on a project to import each species of bird mentioned in Shakespeare’s works that were absent from the US; 60 starlings were released in NYC Central Park. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/136/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/136/ 2022 Booker Prize Shortlist & Winner: 1) The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka🏆 2) Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo 3) The Trees by Percival Everett 4) Treacle Walker by Alan Garner 5) Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 6) Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout @TheBookerPrize https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/114/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/114/ 2022 National Book Awards Winners. Fiction: The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Nonfiction: South to America by Imani Perry. Poetry: Punks by John Keene. Young People’s Literature: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir. Translated Literature: Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/222/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/222/ 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners. Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. Nonfiction: Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott. History: Cuba by Ada Ferrer; Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace. Biography: Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert. Poetry: frank by Diane Seuss. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/221/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/221/ 46% of Americans did not read a single book in 2023, according to a survey conducted by Economist/YouGov. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/376/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/376/ 58% of adults in the USA own a library card. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/15/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/15/ 81% of Americans want to write a book, according to a survey conducted by The New York Times. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/285/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/285/ 88% of private book clubs are all-women groups. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/247/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/247/ A book a day keeps responsiblity away. 😀 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/378/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/378/ A book blog tour is an online book tour, taking place over 1~2 weeks, around the book’s publication date. The book will be featured across various websites and blogs. The dates are preset and the content is unique. It’s a great way to gain more exposure to potential readers. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/326/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/326/ A book buying ban is fictional. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/401/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/401/ A Christmas Carol (1843) was Charles Dickens’s first Christmas book, but he went on to write four more in the 1840s: The Chimes (1844). The Cricket on the Hearth (1845). The Battle of Life (1846). The Haunted Man (1848). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/166/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/166/ A gentle reminder for all travelers: no suitcase is complete without a book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/478/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/478/ A language dies every 14 days. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/204/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/204/ A novelette is a fiction whose length is shorter than a novella, but longer than a short story. Writers of America defines a novelette's word count to be between 7,500 and 17,500 words (or 30 and 70 pages). An example of a novelette is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/34/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/34/ A novella is a fiction whose length is shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story. Writers of America defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words (or 70 and 160 pages). A famous example of a novella is Animal Farm by George Orwell. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/33/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/33/ A shelfie is a picture of a shelf, especially a bookshelf that shows off someone’s books, movies, art, collectibles, special belongings, etc. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/243/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/243/ A six-word flash fiction by Ernest Hemingway: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/25/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/25/ A stranger with a book in hand is not a stranger, but a comrade. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/408/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/408/ A study found that Estonia is the world’s biggest bookworm. On average, Estonian households own 218 books, with a third owning 350 or more. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/142/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/142/ Abbey Library of Saint Gall in St. Gallen, Switzerland is one of the oldest and one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Early architectural plans that depict a library attached to the main church suggest the collection dates back to around 820 CE. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/134/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/134/ abibliophobia. noun. fear of running out of things to read https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/1/ According Statista, the number of independent bookstores in the United States is growing over the past decade. There are 2,023 independent bookselling companies running 2,506 bookstores in 2022. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/291/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/291/ According to a study by Yale School of Public Health, readers live longer than non-readers by nearly 2 years. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/390/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/390/ According to Dartmouth Library, up to 51% of films are based on book adaptations and these films tend to bring in more money than non-adaptations. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/101/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/101/ According to Index Translationum, Agatha Christie is the most translated author, whose books have been translated into at least 103 languages. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/115/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/115/ According to National Geographic, Ateneo Grand Splendid is the world’s most beautiful bookstore, which is housed in a exquisitely preserved antique theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/95/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/95/ According to Statista, over 788 million print books were sold in the US in 2022, and paperbacks remained the dominant format, accounting to 60 percent of all sales. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/254/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/254/ According to Statista, People magazine had the largest audience in the United States in June 2022, with an average monthly reach of 81.35 million people. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/169/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/169/ According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services, there are around 1.3 billion visits to public libraries in the US every year, and 1.24 billion movie theater admissions in 2017. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/94/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/94/ According to the World Literacy Foundation, one out of five people in the world still can't read or write. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/132/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/132/ According to World Bank, the global literacy rate among adults is 86% today; it was 42% in 1960; 12% in 1820. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/47/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/47/ According to Zippia, 64.3% of readers are women and 35.7% of readers are men in the US. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/271/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/271/ Aesop’s Fable: The Man and the Lion https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/319/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/319/ After her first husband asked for a divorce, the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared for 10 days. The disappearance was on the front page of newspaper and prompted an extensive manhunt. She was finally discovered unharmed at a hotel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/60/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/60/ After I became a reader, my insomnia went away. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/416/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/416/ Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She wrote 66 detective novels and 15 short story collections that have sold over 2 billion copies, a staggering number surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/262/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/262/ Agatha Christie loved to think through her book plots while eating an apple in the bathtub.🍎🛀💡 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/76/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/76/ Agatha Christie wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym name Mary Westmacott. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/213/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/213/ Albena Beach Library, located in a resort on the Black Sea coast, Bulgaria, is the first of its kind open air library in EU, boasting 6k+ books in 15+ languages. With 140 white shelves made from a special material and a vinyl cover, the library is resistant to sun, wind and rain. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/348/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/348/ American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/102/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/102/ American poet and novelist Maya Angelou spoke six languages (English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and Fante) but did not talk for five years after her childhood trauma. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/62/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/62/ American teenagers now spend on average 7 hours and 14 minutes per day using screen media such as watching TV and playing video games, excluding the time spent on schoolwork and eBooks. They spend on average 20 minutes per day reading print books or eBooks. The ratio is 22:1. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/295/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/295/ Americans check out an average of eight books from a library every year, according to American Library Association. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/93/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/93/ An auto-buy author is the one whose new books you will always purchase or borrow as soon as they are released. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/317/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/317/ An average American reads 5.7 hours every week. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/288/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/288/ An avid cook, Maya Angelou published two cookbooks, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes (2005) and Great Food, All Day Long (2010). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/250/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/250/ An e-reader is a necessity, not a luxury! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/413/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/413/ An epistolary /eh-PISS-tuh-lair-ee/ novel is a literary work written entirely or predominantly in the form of letters, diary entries, journal entries, or other documents, such as emails or text messages. This style allows the story to unfold through the characters’ personal writings, offering an intimate and immediate perspective. A famous examples is “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. The story is framed as a series of letters from Robert Walton to his sister, narrating Victor Frankenstein’s tale. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/463/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/463/ anagram. /ˈan-uh-gram/ noun. a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. Example: “William Shakespeare” is an anagram of “I'll make a wise phrase.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/276/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/276/ Animal Farm by George Orwell was banned in US and UK during World War II, in fear that the novella could undermine their alliance with the Soviet Union against Hitler. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/59/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/59/ Anne Frank’s diary was her 13th birthday present and she called her dairy Kitty. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/140/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/140/ Approximately 2 million books are published worldwide every year. It’s 5,618 new books each day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/6/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/6/ ARC stands for Advance Reader Copy. ARC books are copies of an unpublished book given to reviewers for free in exchange for an honest review. An ARC reader or reviewer reads the book pre-publication and posts a review before or immediately after the publication date. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/255/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/255/ As a struggling young writer, Harper Lee received a year’s wages as a Christmas present from her friends so that she could quit her job and write her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/137/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/137/ At age 64, Bonnie Garmus published her debut novel “Lessons in Chemistry”, an instant bestseller in 2022. Bonnie did write two other novels: the first one never finished; the second rejected by agents. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/156/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/156/ Audiobooks are underrated. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/409/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/409/ Audiobooks turn commute time into story time. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/467/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/467/ Banned Books Week (Last week of September) is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read,draws attention to banned & challenged books, and highlights persecuted individuals. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/86/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/86/ Barnes & Noble became the only national bookstore chain in the United States, after Borders Group filed for bankruptcy and closed all its 400 stores in 2011. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/387/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/387/ Be with someone who brings peace to your mind. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/452/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/452/ Before Edgar Allan Poe reached the age of 4, his both parents died and he was taken in by a wealthy merchant. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/234/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/234/ Before electric lighting became widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, winter holidays were a natural reading season. Short daylight hours and cold weather kept people indoors, and evenings were often spent by candlelight or the hearth. Books were costly, limited in number, and commonly shared within households. Reading aloud was typical—one person reading while others listened, sewed, repaired clothing, or rested. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/480/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/480/ Between 1920 and 1942, Tolkien wrote the letters to his children every Christmas. Letters from Father Christmas was published posthumously in 1976. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/148/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/148/ Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/310/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/310/ bibliobibuli. Noun. The sort of people who read too much. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/66/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/66/ biblioklept. Noun. A person who steals books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/187/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/187/ Bibliolater /bib-lee-ohˈlay-tuhr/ Noun. A book enthusiast; Someone who talks about books when they aren't busy reading https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/357/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/357/ bibliophagist. noun. A devourer of books, a voracious reader https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/12/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/12/ bibliosmia. noun. the smell or aroma of a good book https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/3/ bibliotaph. noun. a person who hides away or hoards books https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/18/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/18/ bibliotheca /bib-lee-uh-ˈthee-kuh/ Noun. a collection of books; a library. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/224/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/224/ bibliotherapy. noun. the use of literature for help in solving personal problems or for psychiatric therapy https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/16/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/16/ Blind Date With A Book is a concept started by a second-hand bookshop in Sydney, Australia. Each book is wrapped in brown paper, with only a few clues written on top. A reader picks and reads a book based solely on the clues, not by judging the book by its cover, title or author. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/342/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/342/ Bonnie Garmus told People Magazine that her first novel was rejected 98 times and never published. Lessons in Chemistry, a 2022 instant bestseller, is her first published novel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/364/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/364/ Book addiction is the best addiction. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/428/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/428/ Book buying bans are made to be broken. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/392/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/392/ Book-bosomed. Adjective. Someone who carries a book with them at all times. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/191/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/191/ bookarazzi. Noun. a person who excitedly takes photos of the books they read and posts them online. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/79/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/79/ Bookish fact: Buying books and reading them are two different hobbies. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/372/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/372/ Bookish Joke: - Why is a math book always unhappy? - It has so many problems. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/301/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/301/ Bookish Joke: A lot of people don’t know that the library is the building with the most stories. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/268/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/268/ Bookish Joke: Anyone who doesn't like Lord of the Rings doesn't know what they're Tolkien about. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/257/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/257/ Bookish Joke: Did you hear about the book set on Mount Everest? It had quite a cliffhanger. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/283/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/283/ Bookish Joke: Did you hear that John Green got lost in Canada? Yeah, he was Looking for Alaska. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/260/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/260/ Bookish Joke: I don’t loan out my books. Some say I'm shelf-ish. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/278/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/278/ Bookish Joke: I read too much. But I only have my shelf to blame. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/265/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/265/ Bookish Joke: I started reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/324/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/324/ Bookish Joke: Libraries are good for circulation. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/330/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/330/ Bookish Joke: Not all books are created sequel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/355/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/355/ Bookish Joke: Reading is a novel idea. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/341/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/341/ Bookish Joke: The advice from librarians— Believe in your shelf! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/71/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/71/ Bookish Joke: What dinosaur knows a lot of synonyms? A thesaurus. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/339/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/339/ Bookish Joke: What is a car’s favorite genre? Auto-biography. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/327/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/327/ Bookish Joke: Why are writers always cold? They're surrounded by so many drafts. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/258/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/258/ Bookish Joke: Why did the detective go to the library? The detective wanted to check out a mystery! 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/349/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/349/ Bookish Joke: You don't know Fitzgerald? You Gatsby kidding me! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/259/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/259/ Bookish Quote: “Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read.” —László Krasznahorkai https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/174/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/174/ Bookish Quote: “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” —Stephen Fry https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/43/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/43/ bookklempt. Adjective. Completed the last book in a series for which there are no more books left, and not yet emotionally prepared to begin a new series. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/190/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/190/ Bookmath is more of an art than a science. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/394/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/394/ Books >>> Screens https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/441/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/441/ Books are released on Tuesdays. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/27/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/27/ Books do not have outages. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/421/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/421/ Books don’t break the bank. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/411/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/411/ Books don’t need antivirus protection. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/423/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/423/ Bookstores and libraries are sisters, sharing the same love for stories and knowledge. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/457/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/457/ Bookstores are places of pilgrimage. Libraries feel like home. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/475/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/475/ British novelist D. H. Lawrence would seek inspiration for writing by climbing mulberry trees totally naked. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/182/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/182/ C. S. Lewis destroyed the first version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when his friends criticized it; he rewrote the book from scratch. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/315/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/315/ Catch-22 was originally titled Catch-18. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/228/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/228/ Charles Dickens had a pet raven, whom he named Grip. The dead bird is now in the Free Library of Philadelphia. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/77/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/77/ Charles Dickens used fake books as decoration for his bookcase and his library. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/65/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/65/ Chinese Proverb: “Maybe so, Maybe not. We’ll see.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/320/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/320/ Considered as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Middlemarch by George Eliot created a rich portrait of all walks of life in a small early 19th-century English town. Novelist Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/359/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/359/ Constructed in the 2nd century CE, the Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus, located in today’s western Turkey, was a repository of over 12,000 scrolls, a monumental tomb for Celsus, and one of the most magnificent architectures in the Roman Empire. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/350/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/350/ Czech Republic has the densest library network in the world. There is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens, 4 times as many as the average European country, and 10 times the United States, which has one for every 19,583 people. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/245/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/245/ Designer book benches can be found in parks, bus stops and other public places across Bulgaria. They are made to a high quality standard, using fiberglass with resistance to different climatic conditions, according to the seller OverHertz. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/256/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/256/ Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is used to organize the contents of a library. It structures the knowledge into 10 main classes, with each assigned 100 numbers; each class is further structured into 10 divisions. Further subdivisions eventually extend into decimal numbers. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/308/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/308/ Dewey Readmore Books (1987-2006) was the library cat of Spencer Public Library, Spencer, Iowa. Abandoned in the library’s drop bin on a cold winter night, Dewey was adopted by the library and lived there for the next 19 years. A book was published in 2008 to recount his life. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/332/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/332/ Does age make you wiser? Not necessarily. But books do! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/415/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/415/ Don’t ask how many books someone has read; ask which ones they would recommend. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/436/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/436/ Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham used precisely 50 words: a am and anywhere are be boat box car could dark do eat eggs fox goat good green ham here house I if in let like may me mouse not on or rain Sam say see so thank that the them there they train tree try will with would you https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/20/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/20/ Dr. Seuss spent a year and a half to write The Cat in the Hat. His original plan was one week. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/7/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/7/ Dr. Seuss was an avid hat collector and owned hundreds of hats. He would wear one of his crazy hats for inspiration while writing and loved to encourage his guests at dinner party to try on his hats from a secret closet. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/316/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/316/ During his lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic, Moby Dick, only sold 50 copies. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/159/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/159/ Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -1849) is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/112/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/112/ Edgar Allan Poe married his first cousin, Virginia Clemm, when she was 13 and he was 27. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/233/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/233/ Edgar Allan Poe published his first book, Tamerlane, when he was 18 years old. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/235/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/235/ Edgar Allan Poe was also an accomplished boxer, long jumper, rower, and swimmer. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/237/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/237/ Edgar Allan Poe’s famous mustache didn’t appear until later in life, 4 years before his death at the age of 40. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/238/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/238/ Edgar Allan was kicked out of university because of his gambling debts. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/236/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/236/ Edgar, Allan and Poe are the mascots of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. They are named after the writer and Baltimore, Maryland resident, Edgar Allan Poe. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/130/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/130/ Elon Musk: “I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/121/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/121/ Ernest Hemingway hated the original cover of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/24/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/24/ Ernest Hemingway said that American fiction begins and ends with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/430/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/430/ Ernest Hemingway took part in both World Wars, survived two plane crashes, and was married four times. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/54/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/54/ Established in 1958, National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and observed in libraries across the country in the second week of April each year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/395/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/395/ Eunoia (noun. beautiful thinking) is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five vowels. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/343/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/343/ Experts are nearly unanimous in stating that babies should routinely experience shared books as soon as they experience shared talking, that is, during the first weeks and months of life. —Dorothy Butler, Babies need books 👶📚 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/162/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/162/ F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the words 'wicked' and 'T-shirt'. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/198/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/198/ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was partly inspired by a French novel, Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier. The English title is The Wanderer and The Lost Estate. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/97/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/97/ facetiously' and 'abstemiously' are the two words that use all six vowels, including 'y', in alphabetical order. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/347/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/347/ Fantasy is a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world. —The Oxford Dictionary https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/113/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/113/ February 14 is International Book Giving Day. The idea was conceived in 2012 by Amy Broadmoore, a librarian, and her son, after realizing a need for books for children in underfunded areas. This day is now celebrated officially in over 44 countries. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/252/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/252/ February 14 is Library Lovers Day. It is a day to honor libraries, librarians, book & library lovers in your life. Library Lovers Day started in Australia when the lovers of Australia’s libraries claimed Valentine’s Day as the Library Lovers Day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/251/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/251/ Feeling sad, you read—not to escape, but to feel understood. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/477/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/477/ Finishing a book feels like getting to know a new friend. Rereading it is like returning to an old one. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/473/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/473/ Flash fiction “Widow’s First Year” by Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates “I kept myself alive.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/44/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/44/ Founded in 1732, Portuguese bookshop Bertrand Chiado is the oldest operating bookshop in the world. It is 292 years old. For comparison purposes, @barnesandnoble is 138 years old; @amazon, 30. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/100/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/100/ Founded in 1927, Strand is NYC’s largest independent and family-owned bookstore, with 230+ staffs, boasting 18 miles and 2.5 million new & used books, spreading 4 floors. It is named after a famous street in London where writers such as Thackeray, Dickens and Mill used to gather. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/270/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/270/ Friday night reading is sacred. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/476/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/476/ Fyodor Dostoevsky endured four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of mandatory military service in exile. When he later traveled through Western Europe, he developed a gambling addiction that brought him financial difficulties, forcing him to beg for money at one point. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/432/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/432/ Gabriel García Márquez refuses to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film. The reason: “They would cast someone like Robert Redford and most of us do not have relatives who look like Robert Redford.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/194/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/194/ George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984” has topped 2022 electronic bestseller lists in Russia. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/168/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/168/ George R.R. Martin has stated in interviews that he absolutely hates spellcheck and autocorrect. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/220/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/220/ Gone with the Wind was originally titled Tomorrow Is Another Day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/230/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/230/ Great Gatsby was originally titled The High-Bouncing Lover. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/229/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/229/ Halloween Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural and became a member of a ghost hunters club at age 50. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/124/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/124/ Hanya Yanagihara, her editor, and her agent all expected that A Little Life “would not sell well”. They were all wrong. The novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2015, and ranked in The Guardian’s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/154/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/154/ Hardcover books are published before paperback books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/30/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/30/ High fantasy, or epic fantasy, a sub-genre of fantasy, is characterized by being set in an alternative world, with lots of magical elements, fantastical creatures, and unusual technology. An example of high fantasy is The Lord of the Rings, set in Middle Earth. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/302/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/302/ Human knowledge is doubling every 12 hours. In 1945 it was doubling every 25 years. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/128/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/128/ Hungary’s second-largest bookseller, Líra Könyv, was fined $36,000 for placing Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, a LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, in its youth literature section, and for failing to place it in closed packaging as required by a 2021 "child protection" law. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/344/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/344/ I read, therefore I am. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/388/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/388/ I’d rather lose myself in a book than in a party. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/460/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/460/ I’m armed with a kindle at work. Emotionally. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/418/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/418/ Iceland has the highest per capita number of published writers. One in ten people in Iceland have published a book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/105/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/105/ Icelanders have a tradition of exchanging books as gifts on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is called “Jolabokaflod”, or “Christmas Book Flood” in English. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/141/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/141/ If you DNF a book after reading only a few pages, you didn’t DNF it, you DNS (Did Not Start) it. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/405/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/405/ If you feel the urge to visit a bookstore, act on it and go! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/431/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/431/ If you publish a book in Norway, the government will purchase around 1,000 copies. And if you publish a children’s book, they’ll purchase around 1,500 copies. The books must be written in Norwegian. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/104/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/104/ If you read 30 pages a day, you read about 35 books a year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/379/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/379/ If you read for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night every day, you’d read approximately 73 books in a year! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/386/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/386/ If you read only 1 book in 2023, then you read more than 46% of Americans. Reading 10 books puts you ahead of 79% of U.S. adults. Readers of 20+ books are in the 88th percentile, while Americans who read 50 or more books read more than 99% of their peers. Source: Economist/YouGov https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/377/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/377/ If you read, you are kind of immortal. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/412/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/412/ In 1904, Franz Kafka wrote a letter to a friend defining the books that are worth reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/321/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/321/ In 1935, the publisher Penguin Books introduced the first Penguin Paperback novels. Prior to their publication, the paperback book had a reputation for being trashy and poor quality. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/218/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/218/ In 1971, Maya Angelou’s book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings“ became the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/240/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/240/ In 1980 David Letterman interviewed Isaac Asimov, who has just written his 221st book. Letterman asked what kind of schedule Asimov follows to write that many. It’s simple. Asimov explained: 'I get up in the morning, sit down and write, and when I finish writing, go back to bed.' https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/325/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/325/ In 2009, Stephen King called Patterson a terrible yet successful writer. In 2016, James Patterson planned but later called off the publication of a new novel titled The Murder of Stephen King, after learning of real-life threat. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/280/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/280/ In 2012, Random House Publishing and fellow publishing giant Penguin Group agreed to merge operations in a £2.4 billion merger deal, and in 2013, they became the world’s largest publishing company, named Penguin Random House, retaining both their brand names. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/351/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/351/ In 2013, J. K. Rowling secretly published an adult detective novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/214/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/214/ In 2016, the granddaughter of a man who had “borrowed” The Microscope and Its Revelations from Hereford Cathedral School in the UK returned the book 120 years late. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/56/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/56/ In 2019, Americans aged 15-44 spent 10 minutes or less per day on reading; In contrast, Americans spent almost 3 hours per day using their phones. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/167/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/167/ In 2019, London’s Canary Wharf introduced vending machines that print out random short stories of a selected genre on receipt-like scrolls. The machines can dispense one, three and five-minute stories free to passersby at the touch of a button. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/14/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/14/ In 2020, Penguin Random House agreed to purchase rival publisher Simon & Schuster for $2.2 billion. In 2021, a US judge blocked the merger, agreeing with the Justice Department that the joining of two biggest publishers could 'lessen competition' for 'top-selling books.' https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/352/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/352/ In 2021, billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin bought a first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution for $43.2 million at Sotheby's, setting the record for the most expensive document ever sold at auction. The document is one of 13 known copies and one of only two held in private. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/253/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/253/ In a 2010 article for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik named three perfect books in American literature that speak to every reader and condition: The Catcher in the Rye, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/312/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/312/ In a Human Library, you can check-out humans as a living book and listen to their stories. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/63/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/63/ In ancient Egypt, all ships visiting Alexandria were obliged to surrender their books to the Great Library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/125/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/125/ In Canada, authors receive payment if their books are available in public libraries. Through the Public Lending Right (PLR) program, over 18,000 Canadian authors are compensated annually, with payments ranging from $50 to $4,500 per year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/363/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/363/ In Halloween, J. R. R. Tolkien was known to dress up as an axe-wielding Anglo-Saxon warrior and chase his astonished neighbor down the street. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/122/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/122/ In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King recommends 1,000 words a day for beginner writers. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/290/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/290/ In Iraq, booksellers leave books outside in the street at night because Iraqis believe that the reader does not steal and the thief does not read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/36/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/36/ In Sweden, one week in autumn is dedicated to reading. It’s called Läslov, meaning "reading holiday". In this week, bookshops, libraries, publishers and everyone else connected to culture and books come together to promote reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/178/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/178/ In Thailand and Laos, Elephant Mobile Libraries use elephants to deliver books to the remote communities inaccessible to other modes of transport. The students patiently wait in line and receive their books from the librarians seated atop the elephants. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/304/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/304/ In the U.S., the average textbook costs $84. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/287/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/287/ Including television, theater, film and even radio, Charles Dickens is the most adapted author of all time. A Christmas Carol has been filmed over 50 times. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/217/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/217/ Independent Bookshop Week, taking place in June (June 17-24, 2023), is a celebration of independent bookstores in the UK, highlighting the essential role they play in their communities. The campaign was launched in 2006 by the Booksellers Association and sponsored by Hachette UK. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/329/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/329/ India is the country that reads the most, with an average Indian reading 10.7 hours every week. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/5/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/5/ International Harry Potter Day occurs on May 2 because it’s the date Harry defeated Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/292/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/292/ Isaac Asimov coined the word robotics. In his 1941 short story called 'Liar!,' Asimov became the first person to use the word robotics, meaning the technology that robots possess. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/87/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/87/ Isaac Asimov took an IQ test during his days in the army. He scored a 160 where everyone else scored less than 100. He didn't get any promotion because his IQ score showed how book smart he was and those skills aren't needed as much for the army. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/311/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/311/ It can be estimated that almost 11,000 books are published daily. This works out to around 457 titles an hour and 8 titles a minute. Source: WordsRated. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/370/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/370/ It is estimated that the odds of an author getting their work published by a traditional publishing house stands between 1% and 2%. Source: WordsRated https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/296/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/296/ It takes an average of 475 hours to write a novel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/96/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/96/ It took almost a full year for Leo Tolstoy to write an introduction to War and Peace that he was happy with. He wrote 15 beginnings, four introductions and a preface to the novel in that one year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/176/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/176/ It’s estimated that a new book title is added to Amazon’s cyber bookshelves every five minutes. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/186/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/186/ It’s estimated that Amazon has 3.4 million books on its virtual shelves at any given time, which is more than three times the number of titles claimed by world’s largest brick-and-mortar bookstore. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/185/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/185/ It’s estimated that over 2.2 billion books are sold each year, with the USA, UK, and China contributing to over 72% of this figure. Source: WordsRated. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/337/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/337/ It’s never too late to become a reader. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/398/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/398/ It’s never too late to open a book during the day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/397/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/397/ It’s never too late to rediscover your love for reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/474/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/474/ It’s never too late to start reading, in a day or in life. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/424/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/424/ It’s the publisher, not the author, who decides the title and the book cover design of the book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/29/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/29/ J. K. Rowling is the first person in the world to become a billionaire by writing books, according to Forbes. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/49/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/49/ J. R. R. Tolkien typed the entire 1,200-page manuscript of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with only two fingers. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/40/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/40/ J. R. R. Tolkien was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by his friend C. S. Lewis in 1961. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/133/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/133/ J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 different publishers before Bloomsbury accepted it. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/2/ James Patterson was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. He reached this milestone in 2010. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/273/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/273/ Jane Austen hid her manuscript of Pride and Prejudice from visitors. She did not want to be caught in the act of writing. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/45/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/45/ Jane Austen published four novels when she was alive: Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Emma (1815). Jane Austen passed away in 1817 at the age of 41. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/90/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/90/ Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, was first published on the 28th January 1813. Jane completed the tale of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy in 1797, sixteen years before its publication. Austen sold the copyright for the novel for £110. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/244/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/244/ Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was originally titled Elinor and Marianne. Her Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/89/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/89/ Jimmy Carter was one of the most literary U.S. presidents and a prolific author, having written over 30 books spanning various genres, including memoirs, poetry, and children’s literature. Among his most notable works are Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982), which provides an in-depth account of his presidency, and A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (2015), a heartfelt retrospective on his extraordinary life and legacy. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/464/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/464/ Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, invented the Printing Press in 1440. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/103/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/103/ John Green’s Looking for Alaska was the most challenged / banned book in 2015 according to American Library Association. Challenging means someone requested to have the book removed from a school or library. As a reference, The Bible was #6 on the list in 2015. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/13/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/13/ John Grisham’s manuscript for A Time to Kill was rejected 28 times, but was eventually picked up by a small publisher, Wynwood Press. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/48/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/48/ John Steinbeck’s beloved dog, an Irish setter named Toby, ate the original manuscript for Of Mice and Men. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/9/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/9/ John Steinbeck’s wife, Carol, came up with the title for The Grapes Of Wrath, and John took her advice. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/155/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/155/ Jolabokaflod photo https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/461/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/461/ Joseph Pulitzer, known as one of the greatest newspaper publishers in US history, established the Pulitzer Prizes award as part of his will in 1904. He dies in 1911 and Columbia University School of Journalism is founded in 1912. In 1917 the first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/299/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/299/ Judge less, read more. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/471/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/471/ Just keep reading. Just keep reading, reading, reading. What do we do? We read, read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/382/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/382/ Just one more chapter tonight—the most beautifully broken promise a reader makes to themselves. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/462/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/462/ Karabuk University Library in Turkey is designed to resemble a row of large books on a shelf. Inspired by Kansas City Public Library in the US, the library is one of the main tourist attractions in Karabuk province. The library serves almost 190 university libraries in Turkey. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/266/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/266/ Leo Tolstoy’s 1400-page manuscript of War and Peace was copied 7 times by Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy, by hand. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/197/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/197/ Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of Barnes & Noble, has died at age 83 on August 27, 2024 in New York, after battling with Alzheimer’s disease. Riggio was born on February 28, 1941 in Manhattan. He founded Barnes & Noble in 1971. At the height of his career, the companies totaled more than 5,000 retail stores nationwide and employed more than 100,000 people. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/434/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/434/ Library cats are domesticated cats that live in public libraries. The association of cats with libraries dated from the Middle Ages. Library cats have been used to chase away rodents, befriend patrons, boost librarian morale, and inspire reading and literacy programs. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/242/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/242/ Library members can borrow accessories such as ties, neckties and briefcases from New York Public Library for job interviews. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/111/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/111/ libricide. Noun. The destruction of books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/70/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/70/ librocubicularist. /lib-ro-kyoo-ˈbi-kyoo-la-rist/ noun. a person who reads books in bed. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/8/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/8/ Life is a series of gaps between books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/389/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/389/ Life is short—buy the book, read the book, love the book! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/450/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/450/ Life is short. Read the book. Eat the cake. Take the trip. Buy the shoes. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/391/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/391/ Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal is one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/53/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/53/ Located at the entrance of the Municipal Library in Prague, Czech Republic, Infinity book Tower is made of 8,000+ books, with mirrors at the top & bottom of the tower, symbolizing the infinite knowledge gained through reading. It was built in 1998 by a Slovak artist Matej Kren. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/369/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/369/ Located in the center of COEX Mall in Seoul, South Korea, Starfield Library is an open public space for everyone, a futuristic library with 13-meter floor-to-ceiling bookshelves holding 50 thousands books and 600 magazines. Visitors may use the escalators to the second level. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/335/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/335/ logophile. /ˈlaw-guh-fahyl/ noun. a person who loves words https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/23/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/23/ London’s Savoy is one of the few hotels in the world that employs a Book Butler, who oversees a collection of 40 titles presented in a beautifully illustrated library menu and will be on hand to accommodate suite guests’ literary needs. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/306/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/306/ Longest English word entered in a major dictionary: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Definition: a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/38/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/38/ Low fantasy, a sub-genre of fantasy, is characterized by being set on Earth, the real world, with the inclusion of some magical elements. An example of low fantasy is Harry Potter, set in a fictional version of the UK. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/303/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/303/ Many classic books were originally self-published. Some of these notable indie authors were Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/116/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/116/ March is National Reading Month. March 2 is Read Across America Day, which falls on the birthday of beloved children’s book author Dr. Seuss. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/267/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/267/ Mark David Chapman, who shot John Lennon, was reading The Catcher In The Rye when he was arrested. He believed that after killing Lennon, he would take on the soul of Holden. He once stated that the reason of killing John Lennon was to promote the reading of J.D. Salinger’s book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/313/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/313/ Mary Shelley began writing “Frankenstein” when she was 18 years old. The book was published two years later in January 1818, about 206 years ago. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/150/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/150/ Matt Haig, a bestselling author of The Midnight Library & Reasons to Stay Alive, was diagnosed with ADHD and autism at age 46, shortly after publishing Midnight Library. A true mental health champion: “I wanted to end it all, but surviving and thriving is the lesson I pass on.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/328/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/328/ May is Get Caught Reading Month. Get Caught Reading is a campaign that was started in 1999 by the American Association of Publishers. Its goal is to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/293/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/293/ Maya Angelou received more than 30 honorary degrees and earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1971 for her poetry collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/241/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/241/ Maya Angelou was hired as Hollywood’s first Black woman movie director in 1971 to direct the film adaptation of her 1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/249/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/249/ metrophobia. Noun. an irrational or disproportionate fear of poetry https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/160/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/160/ Morioka Shoten Ginza is a tiny bookstore of “a Single Room with a Single Book” in Tokyo, Japan. This bookstore offers only one title every week and organizes events to discuss the book every evening. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/61/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/61/ Most people don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions. Only 8% of those who make New Year’s resolutions actually keep them, according to the University of Scranton. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/171/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/171/ Ms. Annie Ernaux, 82, is the 17th female writer to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (2022). So far the prize has been awarded to 119 individuals since it was formed in 1901. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/99/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/99/ Nearly 70 percent of all YA titles are purchased by adults between the ages of 18 and 64. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/131/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/131/ Neil Gaiman has said he ended his journalism career in 1987 because British newspapers regularly publish untruths as fact. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/81/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/81/ No bookish question is ever a dumb question. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/458/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/458/ No one is more than patient than the books on your TBR. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/422/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/422/ Non-Fiction November was established by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups, a voluntary self-funded organisation in the UK, to highlight the importance of information books and to promote reading non-fiction for pleasure. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/367/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/367/ Nonfiction books outsells fiction books by a margin of 3-to-2. In 2017, nonfiction revenues totaled $6.18 billion compared to $4.3 billion in fiction sales. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/146/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/146/ Not reading on a rainy day is a crime, I feel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/419/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/419/ NYC Library Hotel’s collection of 6k+ hardcover books is organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification. Each of the 10 floors is dedicated to one of the 10 categories of DDC. Each of the 60 rooms are uniquely adorned with about 50-150 books belonging to the category of the floor. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/309/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/309/ On an April afternoon in 1978, Haruki Murakami was watching a baseball game when he underwent a life-changing epiphany. “In that instant,” he writes, “and based on no grounds whatsoever, it suddenly struck me: I think I can write a novel.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/163/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/163/ On August 7, 2023, it’s announced that Simon & Schuster, one of the Big 5 publishers in the US, is to be sold to the private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion. In 2021, a deal to sell to Penguin Random House for $2.2 billion was blocked by a federal judge and ultimately canceled. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/353/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/353/ On September 27, 2023, the Empire State Building were magically aglow with the four colors of Hogwarts: Gryffindor red, Slytherin green, Ravenclaw blue and Hufflepuff yellow, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/366/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/366/ One of the most iconic book quotes: “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/172/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/172/ One tree can make about 50 books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/84/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/84/ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) – Irish playwright, novelist, and poet celebrated for his wit, flamboyant style, and sharp social critique. Famous works include The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Despite his literary success, he was imprisoned for his homosexuality, convicted of “gross indecency” in Victorian England. Wilde’s humor, insight, and daring spirit continue to inspire readers worldwide. His works challenge norms, celebrate beauty, and remain timelessly relevant. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/479/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/479/ Page-a-vu. Noun. That eerie feeling that you’ve read this book before, even though you haven’t. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/75/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/75/ palindrome. /ˈpal-in-drohm/ noun. a word, sentence, verse, or even number that reads the same backward or forward. Example: “Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/275/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/275/ pangram. /ˈpan-gruhm/ noun. a sentence incorporating all the letters of the alphabet. Example: “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/274/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/274/ pangram. /ˈpan-gruhm/ noun. a sentence incorporating all the letters of the alphabet. Example: “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/277/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/277/ paraprosdokian. /pair-uh-prahz-ˈdohk-ee-in/ Noun. a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or re-interpret the first part. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/225/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/225/ Paulo Coelho wrote The Alchemist in just two weeks. He said he could write that fast because the book was “already written in his soul”. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/157/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/157/ Paulo Coelho's parents committed him to a mental institution three times because they didn’t want him to be a writer. They wanted him to be an engineer instead. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/175/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/175/ Penguin Random House publishes 85,000 titles every year, including 15,000 titles in print and 70,000 titles in digital format. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/294/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/294/ Penguin Random House reports an annual income of $893 million in 2021, which is close to the combined income of its four main competitors: Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Macmillan. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/284/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/284/ Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions, before Jane Austen rewrote the story significantly and also changed the title. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/26/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/26/ Prioritizing reading is prioritizing your mental well-being. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/447/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/447/ Professional writers are also avid readers. Good reading begets good writing. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/152/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/152/ Protagonist means the main character of the story. Deuteragonist is the second most important character in the narrative. Tritagonist is the third character. Tetartagonist is the fourth character. Pentagonist is the fifth character. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/289/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/289/ Published in 1995, the first book sold on Amazon was called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.' https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/200/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/200/ Pulitzer-winning author Richard Powers’ advice to writers: “Be present, practice attention, and the story you are working on will feed on everything in front of you.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/170/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/170/ Ray Bradbury wrote the 1956 screenplay for Moby Dick. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/193/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/193/ Ray Bradbury: “I’m completely library educated. Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/118/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/118/ Read now! The time will never be just right. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/435/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/435/ readgret. Noun. The feeling of fury or sadness for putting off reading a certain book until now, when you should have read it years ago. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/189/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/189/ Reading aloud to young children is not only one of the best activities to stimulate language and cognitive skills; it also builds motivation, curiosity, and memory. —Bardige, B. Talk to Me, Baby! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/161/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/161/ Reading before bed is a cherished ritual. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/453/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/453/ Reading can upgrade your life. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/429/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/429/ Reading in bed is the best way to wind down your day and prepare for sleep. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/437/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/437/ Reading is a Lifestyle! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/399/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/399/ Reading is a profound form of healing, offering escape, wisdom, and solace that nourish both the mind and soul. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/444/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/444/ Reading is a solitary activity. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/414/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/414/ Reading is the simplest yet most effective life hack. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/427/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/427/ Reading just five pages a day is still a great accomplishment—especially when life gets busy. Every page counts! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/470/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/470/ Reading never gets old. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/420/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/420/ readultery. Noun. being unfaithful to one book by reading another at the same time. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/64/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/64/ Ready. Set. Read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/406/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/406/ Rereading a favorite book is like catching up with an old friend. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/449/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/449/ Richard Osman wrote the hit crime novel The Thursday Murder Club and Steven Spielberg has the movie rights for this novel. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/119/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/119/ Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author. His work has been often adapted to film and TV. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted over 100 times in stage and films productions. Treasure Island also has been adapted over 50 times in films and TV shows. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/361/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/361/ Sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote about interstellar spaceflight but had a fear of flying on an airplane. He did in fact fly on an airplane twice in his life. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/108/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/108/ Self-published authors can earn 60% to 80% royalties for the selling price of a book, while traditionally published authors typically earn 10% to 30% royalties. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/246/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/246/ Self-publishing is now accounting for about 1/3 of all e-book sales in the largest English-language markets. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/42/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/42/ September 6th is Read a Book Day in America. Pick a book to read! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/69/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/69/ sesquipedalian. adjective. (of a word) containing many syllables; long https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/37/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/37/ Shakespeare was also an actor and he performed the ghost in his own play Hamlet. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/127/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/127/ shelfrighteous. Adjective. Feeling superiority about one’s bookshelf. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/188/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/188/ Silent and Listen are spelt with the same letters. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/212/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/212/ Some of the most famous banned/challenged books in history include 1984 by George Orwell, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Reasons for challenges often include charges of racism, offensive language, and sexual explicitness. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/215/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/215/ Spanish author Miguel Cervantes Saavedra is considered one of the best writers in literature, who wrote the famous novel Don Quixote. As a young man, he served as a soldier in a Spanish Regiment in Naples and was later held captive as a slave for five years. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/180/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/180/ Spanish writer Enrique Gaspar is the literary inventor of the time machine. He wrote El Anacronópete (“Flies backward through time”) in 1887, eight years earlier than HG Well’s The Time Machine. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/106/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/106/ Staring lovingly at my bookshelves, waiting for my next read to choose me.. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/466/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/466/ Started in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a program to gift books to children from birth to age 5 every month. The program has since gifted over 204 million books to children in 1,800 local communities across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/340/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/340/ Started in 2012, Silent Book Club is now a global community with 500+ chapters in 50 countries. Readers meet up at a library, a bookstore, a bar, or anywhere. No book assignment. A bell rings and silent reading starts. After one hour, the bell rings again and silent reading ends. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/368/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/368/ Stephen King has triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13. King wrote once: “When I’m writing, I’ll never stop work if the page number is 13 or a multiple of 13; I’ll just keep on typing till I get to a safe number.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/123/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/123/ Stephen King is a hardcore Boston Red Sox fan. He wrote a story about the Boston Red Sox—The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/78/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/78/ Stephen King prefers to write on paper with a fountain pen. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/50/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/50/ Stephen King’s horror novella, Riding the Bullet, was the world’s first mass-market ebook, published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster, available to download for just $2.50. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/177/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/177/ Stop scrolling. Start reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/425/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/425/ Stop threading. Start reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/407/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/407/ Stories last longer than roses and are sweeter than chocolates. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/469/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/469/ Teacher Appreciation Week is a holiday celebrated in USA which takes place in the first full week of May. National Teacher Day is the Tuesday. The history dates back to 1953 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded the 81st Congress to set aside a day to recognize educators. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/297/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/297/ The 1992 coffee table book — Sex — written by American entertainer Madonna is both the fastest-selling and best-selling coffee table book in publishing history. The retail price of the book was $50 in the United States. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/307/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/307/ The 2024 Booker Prize winner receives £50,000 and a trophy named Iris (after winner Iris Murdoch). Each of the shortlisted authors receives £2,500 and a bespoke bound edition of their book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/440/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/440/ The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, recognized “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian also won the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/443/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/443/ The 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt read one book every day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/39/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/39/ The American football team The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem, The Raven. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/232/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/232/ The average audiobook is around 10 hours long. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/380/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/380/ The average audiobook is around 10 hours long. A voice actor spends, on average, 20 hours in the studio recording an audiobook. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/334/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/334/ The average author age in the U.S. is 42 years old. Source: Zippia https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/375/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/375/ The average number of books read in a lifetime is 735 for females and 684 for males, according to Literary Hub. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/358/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/358/ The average person can read around 40 pages per hour. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/129/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/129/ The band U2 borrowed a chapter title, Shadows and Tall Trees, in Lord of the Flies to name one of their songs. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/196/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/196/ The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is part of Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. The rare books& manuscripts are housed in a spectacular, elevated, glassed-in, 6-story tower of book stacks. Built in 1962, it’s one of the largest of this kind in the world. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/356/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/356/ The Biblioburro (Donkey library) is a bookmobile that delivers books from the backs of two donkeys to the children in the remote villages of Colombia. Luis Soriano, a school teacher, started this program in the late 1990s with one donkey and his 70 books. Now he has 7000+ titles! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/336/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/336/ The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Established by Sir Thomas Bodley and officially opened in 1602, the library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/300/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/300/ The book The Lurker at the Threshold by H.P. Lovecraft inspired Stephen King to write horror fictions, according to his interview with Barnes & Noble. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/73/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/73/ The book title and cover of American Gods were already decided before Neil Gaiman started writing the first line of the book. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/82/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/82/ The catchphrase “Knock, knock! Who’s there?” originated from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/135/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/135/ The cause of Edgar Allan Poe's death still remains a mystery. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/239/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/239/ The concept of Santa Claus comes from the 1823 poem “A Visit from St Nicholas”. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/164/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/164/ The Diary of Anne Frank is the best-selling autobiography in the world. It has sold over 35 million copies worldwide. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/139/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/139/ The entrance to Public Library Les Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France, guarded by three giant-sized French classic books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/52/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/52/ The facade of the parking garage for the Central Branch of Kansas City Library, located in the downtown Kansas City, MO. The “books” are 25 feet high and nine feet wide. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/331/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/331/ The first book cover of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was designed by Hugh Thomson in 1894 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/51/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/51/ The first book printed in English, in 1475, was The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye by Englishman William Caxton. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/202/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/202/ The first bookmobile in the world operated in the mid-19th century Great Britain. Horse-drawn wagons served books from bookshelves mounted on the outside. If you love this bookish fact, you would enjoy Jojo Moyes’ novel The Giver of Stars👇 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/58/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/58/ The first ebook in the world is The Declaration of Independence, digitized in 1971. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/4/ The first gothic novel is The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. The book was first published in 1764. The book’s subtitle is A Gothic Story in its second edition. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/147/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/147/ The first printed books didn’t have the author’s name or even the book title on the covers. The covers were artworks, which are covered in drawings, leather or gold. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/85/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/85/ The first public library in America was opened in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1698. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/201/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/201/ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally titled Men Who Hate Women. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/231/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/231/ The Guinness Book of World Records is the book most often stolen from public libraries. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/145/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/145/ The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is the most sold book series in history. The series has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/41/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/41/ The Haskell Free Library and Opera House resides on the Canada–USA border. You can walk in the library from Stanstead, Quebec, Canada and walk out into Derby Line, Vermont, USA. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/55/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/55/ The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 13-digit number that uniquely identifies a book product. An ISBN is assigned to each format (hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook) of the same book. A new ISBN is assigned to each revised edition. An ISBN cannot be reused. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/360/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/360/ The Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in Portugal has a number of bats in residency. The bats prey on insects that could damage book pages. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/110/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/110/ The largest bookstore in the world is Powell’s Book Store in Portland, Oregon. It has 68k sq. ft. (1.6 acres) of sales floor, over 1 million new and used books, and 10 thematic rooms (Green, Blue, Orange, Purple, Red, Gold, Pearl, Coffee, Rose, and a Rare Book Room) plus a cafe. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/184/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/184/ The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington D.C, USA. It has over 173 million items. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/10/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/10/ The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles is California’s largest used and new book & record store. The owner Josh Spencer chose the boldly ironic name due to the declining state of the book industry. Its famous book tunnel and more than 100,000 used books costs at $1 each. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/269/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/269/ The Library of Congress is devoted to making knowledge available to everyone. It pays to print popular magazines, including Playboy, in Braille. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/143/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/143/ The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University used to allow stressed-out students to borrow a therapy dog, a border terrier mix, for 30 minutes of companionship. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/67/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/67/ The lions outside the New York Public Library's main entrance are named as Patience and Fortitude. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/57/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/57/ The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the most-translated French book in the world, available in over 300 languages. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/153/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/153/ The longest English word without a traditional vowel (a, e, i, o, u) is 'rhythms'. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/210/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/210/ The longest sentence ever printed is found in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It is 823 words, 2 and 1/2 page long. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/17/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/17/ The M6 Toll Road (A Motorway in England) was built upon 2.5 million pulped copies of Mills and Boon romance novels. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/199/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/199/ The mass-market paperback is a small, usually non-illustrated, inexpensive bookbinding format. Printed on relatively low-quality paper, they are commonly released after the hardback edition and often sold not only at bookstores, but also at airports, drugstores, and supermarkets. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/282/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/282/ The Monster in Frankenstein is not named Frankenstein. In fact it has no name, but Mary Shelley once referred to him as "Adam". https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/195/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/195/ The Morgan Library & Museum located in Manhattan, New York City is one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. You can learn a piece of its history from the equally beautiful novel The Personal Librarian, written by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/263/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/263/ The most expensive book ever sold was Leonardo da Vinci’s 72-page manuscript, Codex Leicester, which was bought by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million (equivalent to today’s $54.4 million). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/11/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/11/ The most famous Christmas story of all time is Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/165/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/165/ The most popular fiction genre is Fantasy; The most popular nonfiction genre is Memoir & Autobiography. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/138/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/138/ The most popular time travel fiction is H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, published in 1895. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/107/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/107/ The most prolific crime author was John Creasey, who wrote over 600 books under 28 different pseudonyms. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/109/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/109/ The most read book in the world is the Holy Bible. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/74/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/74/ The most stolen book in the world is the Holy Bible, according to experts. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/80/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/80/ The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 115 times to 119 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2022. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/98/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/98/ The number of U.S. Book stores has been declining over the past two decades. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/28/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/28/ The oldest library in the world dates from the seventh century BC. Archaeologists uncovered 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the site of The Library of Ashurbanipal in Ninevah, Assyria (now in Iraq), established by Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669–631 BC). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/183/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/183/ The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable.’ https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/206/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/206/ The original title of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/192/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/192/ The original title of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece “War and Peace” was “The Year 1805”, the year his story begins. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/46/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/46/ The original title of War and Peace was The Year 1805. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/402/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/402/ The progressive advocacy group MoveOn is launching a Banned Bookmobile, a school bus filled with frequently challenged titles, such as The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Looking for Alaska by John Green, to support those who are fighting efforts to limit what Americans can read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/346/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/346/ The pronunciation of Pulitzer is “pull it sir.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/298/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/298/ The record for most people balancing books on their heads at the same place and time is 998 in North Sydney, Australia, in 2012. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/158/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/158/ The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, located in the city center of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Founded in 1837 by 43 Portuguese immigrants, the Cabinet has the largest collection of Portuguese literature outside Portugal. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/261/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/261/ The Seattle Central Library, an 11-story glass and steel building located in downtown Seattle, Washington, is one of the top architectural wonders in the world. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/72/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/72/ The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/208/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/208/ The slowest-selling book of all time is the Oxford University Press translation of the New Testament from Coptic to Latin. In 1716, five hundred copies were printed, and it took until 1907 for the last copy to sell. That’s 1 copy sold every 4.5 months. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/216/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/216/ The Tale of Peter Rabbit was initially rejected by six publishers, because the author Beatrix Potter was insistent that the book be small enough for a child to hold. So in 1901 Potter used her personal savings to print 250 copies (self publishing). It has now sold 45 million. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/322/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/322/ The tale of Sun Tzu and the Concubines https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/318/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/318/ The term “genetic engineering” was first coined by science fiction author Jack Williamson in his 1951 novel, Dragon’s Island. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/144/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/144/ The Top 3 most read books in the world: The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao, and Harry Potter. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/203/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/203/ The word ‘bookworm’ literally means insects who live in and eat books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/19/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/19/ The word “book” comes from “bok”, the Old English word for “beech”, as early manuscripts were often written on beechwood tablets. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/459/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/459/ The word “unputdownable” was coined by author Raymond Chandler in 1947, who when describing a particular book, said he “found it absolutely … unputdownable.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/219/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/219/ The word, bookkeeper, is the only word in English with three consecutive double letters. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/223/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/223/ The world's first Christmas cards were sent in 1843, the same year as Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was published. Designed by John Callcott Horsley and commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, two batches of 2,050 cards were printed and sold for a shilling each in London that year. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/373/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/373/ The world’s first novel is The Tale of Genji, an epic story of 11th-Century Japan, written over 1,000 years ago (around 1009) by Murasaki Shikibu. The tale had an unprecedented global influence. The most recent English translation is 1,300 pages long. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/179/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/179/ Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. President, was an avid reader, reportedly reading one book every day, even during his presidency. His reading spanned a wide range of genres, including history, philosophy, natural sciences, and fiction, reflecting his insatiable curiosity and love for learning. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/465/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/465/ Therapies are neither cheap nor the cure for all your issues. Books are. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/400/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/400/ There are 553 cast members in the 'Game of Thrones' TV series. However, 2,103 characters are mentioned in its book series. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/32/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/32/ There are more public libraries than Starbucks in the USA. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/92/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/92/ There is a book bound in human skin at the Harvard University Library. The book is titled Des destinees de l’ame (translation: Destinies of the Soul). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/83/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/83/ There is no better travel companion than a good book! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/404/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/404/ There's no such thing as bad weather for reading! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/410/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/410/ There’s no better travel companion than a book. There’s no better life companion than a library. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/438/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/438/ There’s no such thing as enough books. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/472/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/472/ Three of Jane Austen’s novels were published after her death (posthumously): Northanger Abbey (1818); Persuasion (1818); Lady Susan (1871) https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/91/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/91/ Time flies when I read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/455/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/455/ To become a New York Times bestselling author, one must sell 5,000~10,000 copies of his/her book in one week, and these sales must be diverse sales, coming from multiple entities such as personal website, Amazon and brick-and-mortar bookstores. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/281/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/281/ Toni Morrison didn’t start writing until her 30s. Her first book The Bluest Eye was published when she was 39 years old. The story was about a little black girl who wished she had blue eyes. Her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved was published when she was 56. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/149/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/149/ Treasure Island’s author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde during his vacation. His wife woke him up when he cried out in horror. He was annoyed: 'Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale!'. The nightmare became a novella in 6 days. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/323/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/323/ Tsundoku. A Japanese word meaning “let reading materials pile up in one’s home and never read them.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/35/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/35/ Twitter ranks as the 14th most popular social network in terms of the number of active users, according to Statista. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/314/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/314/ Under financial pressure, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/374/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/374/ United States Postal Service is honoring American author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison (1931-2019) with her own Forever stamp, announced on March 7, 2023. USPS chooses about 30 out of 30,000 ideas for new stamps each year. The stamp is a Forever stamp and will never expire. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/272/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/272/ Urban Dictionary defines “reading slump” as a reader's worst nightmare. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/345/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/345/ Victorian-era author Mary Anne Evans wrote her classic novel “Middlemarch” under the male pseudonym, George Eliot. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/151/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/151/ Waiting becomes enjoyable when you have a book in hand. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/433/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/433/ War and Peace was originally titled All's Well that Ends Well. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/226/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/226/ Warren Buffett reads 500+ pages every day. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/117/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/117/ Warren Buffett: “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/126/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/126/ We all have 86,400 seconds in a day to read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/446/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/446/ We all have the same 24 hours in a day to read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/403/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/403/ What do you call a book club that’s stuck on one book? Church. 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/442/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/442/ What do you call a dinosaur that reads? A bookasaurus! 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/448/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/448/ What is a bookworm also called in the world? Book flea (Indonesian). Library mouse (Romanian). Read-rat (German). Ink drinker (French). Reading horse (Danish). Book caterpillar (Finnish). Book insect (Hindi). Library rat (Portuguese). Book maggot (Turkish). Book bug (Welsh) https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/365/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/365/ What is book haul? A book haul is when you go and buy a lot of books and then go on social media to share what new books you got. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/22/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/22/ What is buddy read? It's when two people agree to read a book at the same time and discuss about the book along the process. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/21/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/21/ What is the distance from your home to a bookstore? https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/383/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/383/ What is the distance from your home to a library? https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/384/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/384/ What is the distance from your home to an indie bookstore? https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/385/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/385/ When I’m too tired to read, I’m too tired to do anything. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/396/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/396/ When Victor Hugo was writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he would give his clothes to his servants and swathed himself in “a huge grey knitted shawl”, so that he would not be tempted to go out, thus focusing on writing only. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/173/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/173/ When you buy a Kindle ebook, you are only purchasing a license to read it on your device & app. An eligible ebook can be lent out only once for 14 days. Most Kindle ebooks are not loanable. You can however share your ebook within your immediate family (up to 2 adults & 4 kids). https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/354/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/354/ Why are libraries the tallest buildings in the world? Because they have so many stories! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/68/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/68/ Why are writers always cold? Because they’re surrounded by drafts! 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/456/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/456/ Why did the book join the police force? Because it wanted to go under cover! 🤣 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/439/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/439/ William Shakespeare died on his birthday. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/120/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/120/ William Shakespeare is the best-selling poet in English of all time. The author wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a handful of others. Shakespeare has been generating sales for the past 400 years. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/181/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/181/ With 12+ million items, Austrian National Library is the largest library in Austria. Built in the 18th as the Imperial Court Library, the complex include the baroque State Hall Library, crowned by an intricately decorated dome, and 4 museums with special collections & archives. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/338/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/338/ With a population of ~400, the village of Hobart, New York, is home to two restaurants and one coffee shop, and, eight indie bookstores. It also hosts the annual Festival of Women Writers, Winter Respite Lecture Series, and author readings & signings. A paradise for bibliophiles! https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/333/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/333/ Women account for 80% of fiction sales in the UK, US and Canada. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/248/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/248/ Word on the Water, The London Bookbarge, is a floating bookstore on Regent’s Canal. Located on a 1920s Dutch barge, thousands of new&used books are packed into every nook and cranny of the barge, offering classic literature, contemporary fiction, children’s books, and a lot more. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/305/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/305/ wordsmith. noun. a skilled user of words https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/31/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/31/ World Book Day is celebrated on April 23, established by UNESCO in 1995. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. UK opted for the first Thursday in March to avoid a clash with Easter. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/286/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/286/ World Book Day was created by UNESCO on April 23, 1995. This date is chosen because it is the anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Spanish chronicler El Inca. UK/Ireland opted for the first Thursday in March (March 2, 2023) to avoid a clash with the Easter school holidays. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/264/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/264/ World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21, declared by UNESCO in 1999. “Practiced throughout history–in every culture and on every continent–poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values,transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue&peace” https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/279/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/279/ Writer's block is a condition, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. Accomplished authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Mitchell had struggled with the condition. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/88/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/88/ You do not pay sales tax when buying books and newspapers in Norway. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/371/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/371/ You truly age when you stop reading. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/468/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/468/ You’re what you read. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/393/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/393/ Your book is waiting. https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/417/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://readingisalifestyle.com/facts/417/