Happy World Book Day 2015!
30 fun facts about books, in honour of World Book Day 2015
SF writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is the only author to have published a book in all ten Dewey library categories.
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.’
Hugh Lofting, author of Dr Doolittle, thought books should have a ‘senile’ category to complement the ‘juvenile’ section.
Dickens’s house had a secret door in the form of a fake bookcase. The fake books included titles such as ‘The Life of a Cat’ in 9 volumes.
Playwright Joe Orton went to prison in 1962 for defacing library books. One of the cartoons he drew shows an elderly tattooed man in trunks.
The first book bought on Amazon was called Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.
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Thanks for sharing this. I learned that the Japanese word “tsundoku” describes me very well. I also wondered why I had not heard of World Book Day and learned that UNESCO says it is on April 23. 2015. I will need to keep that in mind.
I’ve seen both 5th of March and 23rd of April described as the world book day. I don’t mind celeberating both 🙂
Absolutely. I did read as well that in different locations it is designated on different days.
Thank you!