Fascinating Facts Book Lovers would Love to Know

1. Bibliosmia is the word for loving the smell of books

2. The first book ever written using a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

3. Alice in Wonderland is based on a real 10-year-old girl.

Her name was Alice Liddell, and her family was close friends with author Lewis Carroll. While on a boating trip, she asked him to tell her a story — and that’s how Alice in Wonderland was born.

4. Abibliophobia (noun) is the fear of running out of things to read

5. The largest book in the world measures 16.40 feet x 26.44 feet

6. Chariton's 'Chaireas & Callirhoe', subtitled 'Love Story in Syracuse' was written in the first century AD and it is considered to be the oldest novel in the world, according to the Guinness World Records.

7. The world’s longest novel ever written is Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust.

8. Much like with carbon-dating, scientists can analyze the chemicals responsible for “old book smell” to determine the age of a book. The process is called “material degradomics”

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