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Top 10 world records related to books

Book lovers can read for hours and lose track of time without even knowing it. A good book makes you forget about the real world and the only thing you care about is finding out what happens next! Here are book-related world records that will interest you!

1. Youngest writer

Bella J Dark from Weymouth, UK decided to make her dreams of seeing her own story on the shelves come true. At just 5 years and 211 days old, she is currently the youngest person in the world to publish a book. Bella wrote and illustrated a book titled The Lost Cat, which tells the story of Snowy the Cat, a cat who gets lost after going out alone at night. Bella wrote the story to teach children not to go out alone at night. The Lost Cat was published by Ginger Fyre Press on January 31, 2022 and has sold more than 1,000 copies since then.


Bella first got the idea for The Lost Cat from one of her drawings. Bella's mother, Chelsie Syme, said that Bella has always had a great imagination and has been writing short stories since she was three years old. Bella spent about five days writing the entire story, in addition to drawing and coloring all the pictures (including a drawing on the last page by Bella's sister Lacie May). Before Bella, the youngest writer to ever publish a book was Dorothy Straight (born May 25, 1958). Her book How the World Began was published in August 1964 when Dorothy was 6 years old.
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2. The author writes for top income adults

According to data published by Forbes magazine in August 2013, the world's highest-paid novel writer is Erika Leonard James (pen name EL James), author of the novel Fifty Shades of Gray ( English name is Fifty Shades). Between June 2012 and June 2013, the British author earned US$95 million, beating the previous record holder, American writer-turned-writer James Patterson. has the biggest income with an impressive amount of 91 million US dollars. Thanks to royalties from the novel Fifty Shades of Gray, Erika Leonard entered Forbes' list of highest-earning authors of the year for the first time.
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3. The book signing session is the largest in scale

Sharjah is known to win the title of the world's largest book signing event. Sitting behind an endless row of tables at the Exhibition Center, 1,502 authors from around the world simultaneously signed their books at the Sharjah International Book Fair, setting a new Guinness World Record. The event at the Sharjah International Book Fair officially won the title of the world's largest book signing ceremony, beating the previous record set by 1,423 authors in Turkey.


Amid thousands of cheering visitors at the fair, Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) received a Guinness World Record certificate for the largest book signing. This event is another step forward for Sharjah in the field of Arab and global culture - an outstanding intellectual and creative achievement marked as a result of its efforts to promote the love of books and reading. Sharjah for more than 40 years. This record is extremely special, as it was achieved in the year Sharjah is celebrating its recognition as the 2019 Unesco World Book Capital.

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4. The fastest selling book

The seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series has become the best-selling book in history, with its publishers saying more than 11 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours alone. in three markets. US sales of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" have reached 8.3 million copies, easily beating the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" series, which reached sales of 6.9 million copies. in the first day according to data from US publisher Scholastic, published previously.


Thousands of Harry Potter fans waited outside bookstores in major cities around the world over the weekend to get their hands on the book that answers the question of who survives in the end. In the UK, Bloomsbury sold a record 2.7 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the first 24 hours, up from more than 2 million copies of the previous Potter book. In addition, nearly 400,000 English copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have also been sold in Germany. The world's largest book retailer Barnes & Noble sold 1.8 million copies of "Deathly Hallows" in the first 48 hours, while Borders Group sold about 1.2 million copies worldwide in just one day, both reached record sales.
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5. The world's first removable bookshelf

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has some wonderful furniture set around valuable tapestries, sculptures, and ceramics. One of the most fascinating works in the museum that attracts a lot of attention is one of the first freestanding bookshelves ever built, located in a display area with the first freestanding table, shaped chair box and watch box. The world's first detachable bookshelf is known to have been designed for bartender and naval administrator Samuel Pepys in 1666.


Mr. Samuel Pepys, the person who commissioned the bookshelf, asked the craftsman to build him a set of removable bookcases with protective glass doors. The Samuel Pepys bookshelves are examples of 20th-century loose-legged bookshelves hand-made by a master craftsman, each piece of wood cut by hand in meticulous detail. These pedestal bookshelves were prominently displayed in his library; it is uncertain whether the first pedestal bookshelves were mentioned in his diaries or not. These bookcases were the basis for the production of stand-alone bookcases as we know them today.
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6. Largest private book collection

John Q. Benham is the person with the largest personal book collection in the world today with 1.5 million books. Benham owns a collection of many different genres of books. One major difference between the average person's book collection and John Benham's is the fact that most people keep the average person's collection neatly arranged in one room in their home. And Benham's books were so numerous that most of them had to be stored in the six-car garage of the two-story house and piled under a tarp outdoors.


According to Rare Book Hub, there is also another man who also claims to have 1.5 million books named Anke Gowda. However, he never counted or verified the exact number of books he collected. Anke Gowda collects books written in 20 different Indian languages. He also collected stamps, coins and banknotes, movie posters and newspapers on the side. At first, Gowda filled his entire house with books he collected and left only a small corner for sleeping on the floor and cooking. However, the number of books was so large that he had to seek help to build a 24,000 square foot house to house the books and volunteers were sought to help him care for the collection.

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7. The reading program has the longest duration

Most avid readers feel they can read for several hours or even all day if they have nothing else to do. However, not everyone can spend several consecutive days reading books like the record for the longest reading time in the world. This is a record that even the best, most diligent readers cannot easily beat. The longest reading program is 124 hours and 15 minutes and was achieved by a man named Rys Bai Isakov (Kyrgyzstan) in Bursa, Turkey lasting for 5 days from September 22 to 27, 2022.


Reading for 5 days straight is unrealistic and the preparation required for it must be interesting as most people struggle to read a 1000 page book. Record running begins on September 22, 2022 at 7pm and ends on September 27, 2022 at 11pm. Brother Rys Bai Isakov read "The Epic of Manas" during the record making period. Manas is an extremely sacred ancient ancestor, a legendary 10th-century hero of the Kyrgyz people. The Manas legend goes to the core of Kyrgyz people's spiritual identity and is a symbol of Kyrgyz nationalism and culture.
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8. The library is in the highest position

The library is located on the 60th floor of the JW Marriott Hotel, Tomorrow Plaza, Shanghai, and was awarded the title of tallest library in the world by Guinness. Located on downtown Shanghai, near People's Square, the hotel library is 230.9 meters above sea level and covers an area of ​​57 square meters. It contains more than 1,500 books in various languages, including English novels and Chinese poetry. The library is only open to hotel guests, those who wish to enter the library must use their room card to enter.


Antique editions of Chinese literary works with dark blue covers, rare in local bookstores, are also available in the JW Marriott hotel's library. You have to go through a few different elevators and then continue climbing another flight of stairs to get to the world's tallest library, but it's definitely worth experiencing. The library is also connected to a small cafe located on the 59th floor. From the cafe side, readers can go up the spiral staircase to enter the quiet library, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. floor on three sides.

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9. The best-selling copyrighted book

Guinness World Records Book, also known as Guinness World Records, a reference book published annually covering all types of world records. Published worldwide, the Guinness World Records book has been translated into more than 40 different languages. It is one of the best-selling copyrighted books in publishing history, selling an average of about 3.5 million copies per year and more than 150 million copies since it was first released in 1955.


The Guinness Book of World Records is known for its series of lists and descriptions of records relating to various topics of size, speed and distance, such as tallest person in the world, heaviest onion, fastest animal and heaviest object made by man. There are also other hard-to-achieve competitive challenges, such as stacking the most coins in 30 seconds, shooting the longest arrow using just your feet, and stacking the most people in a car. The Guinness Book of World Records is also the book that inspires tens of thousands of people every year to try to break previously set records.

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10. Best-selling children's stories

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an American children's book series and media franchise created by author and comic book artist Jeff Kinney. 2007. Kinney spent eight years completing the book before giving it to the publisher. More than ten years on, readers still can't get enough of Greg Heffley and Jeff Kinney's doodled adventures. The series follows Greg Heffley, a high school student who illustrates his daily life in a diary.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid was released online by Fun Brain and Kinney in 2004. The online version has received nearly 20 million views. In 2015, approximately 2,208,855 copies of the 10th Diary of a Wimpy Kid installment, Old School, were sold. Diary of a Wimpy Kid helped writer Jeff Kinney (USA) become the best-selling author of children's books in 2015. Since releasing the online version, most of the books have received positive reviews. positive price and commercial success. As of 2022, more than 275 million copies have been sold globally, making it the fourth best-selling book series of all time.
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