Things I bet you didn’t know!

• In the United States, people buy an average of 57 books per second.

• The longest novel available to read is Marienbad My Love by Mark Leach at 17 million words. You can actually read this novel by going to Marienbadmylove.com

The largest book in the world is "The Klencke Atlas" at 5 feet 9 inches tall

and 6 feet 3 wide inches when open).

Twelve publishing houses rejected J K Rowling’s original Harry Potter manuscripts before Bloomsbury

published it.

In the book, Les Miserable by Victor Hugo there is a (one) sentence that is 823 words long.