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Interesting Facts about Books

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1. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’.
2. In 1939 an author named Ernest Vincent wrote a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. The only thing unusual about the novel is that there is not a single letter ‘e’ in the whole thing.
3. There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.
4. Perhaps the most uninteresting book ever written is the calculation of pi to two million places, in 800 pages. Just think of the TV special that could be made from this script.
5. In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one sentence that is 823 words long. When Vic wrote to his editor inquiring about their opinion of the manuscript, he wrote, “?” They answered, “!”
6. If you stretched out all the shelves in the New York Public Library, they would extend eighty miles. The books most often requested at this library are about drugs, witchcraft, astrology and Shakespeare.
7. Interestingly, William Shakespeare invented the word “hurry.”
8. And speaking of Shakespeare, can you imagine John Wayne reciting Shakespeare? Well, he did one time, and won a Shakespeare contest.
9. The following words were invented by William Shakespeare: boredom disgraceful hostile money’s worth obscene puke perplex on purpose shooting star sneak Until his time, people had to have their conversations without these words.
10. In America, we buy 57 books per second. It would take a shelf 78 miles long to hold all of one day’s books.
11. More than two and a half billion Bibles have been made. If you put them on a long bookshelf and started driving along the shelf at 55 mph, you would have to drive 40 hours per week for over four months to get to the end. All these Bibles would fill the New York public library 467 and one-half times.
12. The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, or 810,697 words.
13. Leo Tolstoy wrote a large book called War and Peace before computers and copying machines. His wife had to copy his manuscript by hand seven times.
14. Americans buy approximately five million books a day. 125 new titles are published every day.
15. The first published book ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain used a Remington in 1875.
16. It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary.
17. Jonathan Swift wrote a classic book called Gulliver’s Travels that borders on science fiction. It was written before science fiction was what you called such books. In this book he wrote about two moons circling Mars. He described their size and speed of orbit. He did this one hundred years before they were described by astronomers.
18. The man who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, A. Conan Doyle, was a professional ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. Because in his time specialty medical practices were hard to build and didn’t pay well, he had to take up writing to make ends meet.
19. For the last 12 years of his life, Casanova was a librarian.
20. Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word.
21. There are 72,466,926 books in the Library of Congress on 327 miles of bookshelves.

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Those are really interesting facts!
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Post by suzy1124 »

Very!!!...who knew?
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Its good to know books are still important then and now.
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Post by mitabajaj »

Very interesting facts about books, I have not noticed these facts, I have really enjoyed by reading them.
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Post by LadyErynn10 »

I love random book facts!

Did you know that the book known as the oldest in the world is a several-page-long volume held by the Bulgaria's National Museum of History? It is comprised of six pages of beaten 24-carat gold covered with Etruscan script, one of the few writing systems scholars have yet to decipher. In 2003, it was estimated to be about 2,500 years old.
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Post by kismoody »

Love the book facts. I'm going to have to use some of these with the kids at my library.

-- 27 Feb 2014, 11:12 --

Another fact: Did you know if you stacked all of the Fallen series by Lauren Kate books that had been sold it would be taller than Mt. Everest? cool, right!
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Post by Naval Aulakh »

I seems that you have done a lot of research. I liked the facts and they have immensely added to my knowledge :)
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