Category: Just for Fun

John Steinbeck used 300 pencils to write East of Eden and was known to use up to 60 pencils in a day!

Audiobooks first appeared in 1932, when The American Foundation for the Blind established a recording facility to generate vinyl record recordings of books. It was thought that listening to someone read a book...

Silent reading is a recent phenomenon. Only the most skilled readers of the middle ages could read silently.

Charles Dickens had a passion for hypnosis. The author of classics like Oliver Twist attended a number of lectures on the practice of mesmerism. Which might explain why you zoned out from pages...

Why? They talk about books. They shout about them. Every one of them online thinks their opinion is right, and they’ll argue their point endlessly. They’re loyal readers; they’ll buy books year in,...