[Books fact 1] Charles Dickens’ novels were hugely popular even among the illiterate poor. They would pool their money to hire a reader, and then gather together to listen to the stories.
[Books fact 2] The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a challenge to write the worst opening paragraph to a novel possible. It is named after the author of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, which began with “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents.”
[Books fact 3] About 40 papyri from 150-99 BCE found in Egypt form an archive recording 3 generations of a common soldier’s family. Personal letters, divorce papers, contracts, and wills tell of his emigration from Crete, his marriages, career, and death, as well as the life of his daughter, her 4 siblings, and her kids.
[Books fact 4] Under the Indian Copyright Law, photocopying textbooks for educational purposes is legal.
[Books fact 5] Despite all manner of theories and suggestions, Douglas Adams himself has said he chose 42 as ‘the answer to life, the universe, and everything, after simply staring out at his garden and choosing a ‘funny’ number, completely at random.
[Books fact 6] There is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called 'Da Jesus Book'.
[Books fact 7] Major book publishers in America have an agreement with major bookstores that if the books don't sell, the stores can return them for credit with that publisher. It incentivizes the store to take risks with their stock. Some stores don't send them back, though. For books that are cheaper to print than they are to ship, the publisher doesn't necessarily want the book back. They just want proof that the store isn't lying when they say it didn't sell. So, many publishers allow bookstores to rip the covers off of their books and mail those back and destroy the rest of the book. This is why how lots of books have warnings on the first page saying, essentially, “If you bought this book without a cover, its stolen.”
[Books fact 8] There is such an expansive collection of books at the British Library in their archive, that if a person could read 5 books per day it would take the 80,000 years to complete.
[Books fact 9] A German author published his novel in 2012 called Er ist Wieder da (He's back again) in which Hitler wakes up in modern Berlin with no memories since 1945 and becomes a comedian.
[Books fact 10] There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the U.S.
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