Didja know...? (facts about books)
Thought the bookworms of PT might enjoy some of these fun facts! (taken from Crossings )
*The average book takes 10hrs to read--so giving a book is like giving someone 10 hrs of pleasure and encouragement!
*The first book of crosswords was introduced on April 10, 1924 for a steep $1.35 per book and each one came with a freshly sharpened pencil. The publishers, Simon and Schuster, were advised to use an alias for their first run because their advisors were skeptical and thought it might fail, ruining them in the publishing industry. They took the advice and named themselves Plaza Printing Company. Within three months, book sales reached an astonishing 40,000! Needless to say, the editions of crossword puzzle books that followed bore their real name.
*The Main Library at Indiana Univ. sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
*The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
*The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.
