This blog post is going to be an assortment
of fun facts about libraries, books, and reading. I hope you learn something
new from it!
- There are
more public libraries than McDonald’s in the United States.
- There are
libraries around the world where you can check-out humans as a living book
and listen to their stories. There are 150 such libraries around the world
- The
Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from public libraries
- Haskell
Free Library is built on the US/Canadian border. Exiting the library
through the opposite entrance requires one to report to the country’s
customs thereafter.
- A 124,500
square foot abandoned Walmart in McAllen, Texas, has been turned into the
largest single-floor public library in the United States.
- The Oakland
Library in California maintains a “tool lending library” of 3500 tools to
lend out to the community.
- When asked
what book he’d like to have with him on a desert island, G. K. Chesterton
replied, ‘Thomas’s Guide to Practical Shipbuilding.’
- Author
James Frazer had to move out of his room at Great Court, London because
the floor was threatening to give way under the weight of his books.
- The
Japanese word ‘tsundoku’ means ‘buying a load of books and then not
getting round to reading them’.
- ‘Bibliosmia‘
is the enjoyment of the smell of old books.
Sources: http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-libraries/
http://interestingliterature.com/2015/03/05/30-interesting-facts-about-books/