Interesting Fact about books

1)The people of India are the world’s most average readers. On average, an individual will spend around 10.7 hours a week just reading!

2)The Harry Potter books are allegedly the most banned books in America due to religious complaints.

3)The record for most people balancing books on their heads at the same place and same time is 998 people in Sydney, Australia in 2012.

4) The Japanese word ‘tsundoku’ apparently means “buying lots of books and then never getting around to reading them.”

5) Only around 2% of more than 1.2 million books published each year sell more than 500,000 copies.

6) ‘Bibliosmia’ is the word for the enjoyment of the smell of old books. (Guilty of this one myself!)

7) One study found that people who read are two and a half times less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s later in life.