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Book Lovers Day  | Read a Book Day

Details about Book Lovers Day | Read a Book Day

  • 05 16, 2023

National Book Lovers Day 

There’s no arguing that books are the best means of escape. They can transport you to any age, geography, or society. So, to observe the National Book Lovers Day on August 9, it is a day when we kept our smart devices aside and simply enjoyed reading a nice book. (Alright, an audio book would suffice as well.) Literature for ages has been crucial the preservation of civilization’s, people’s education and culture and their stories. Everything from clay tablets to current e-books.

While present-day books are made with binder paper, in the olden days, books were either in the form of disks, scrolls, or engravings, long before binding paper was invented. Every society had its distinct methods of recording data. Around 3500 B.C, the Mesopotamians began to write on clay tablets using an instrument resembling a sharpened reed stem called a calamus.

The engravings on moist clay were referred to as “wedge-shaped”. Close to twenty thousand such wedges have been unearthed in contemporary Iraq. In the first century AD, paper was first invented in China. Ts’ai Lun helped create the earliest forms of paper by making use of linen rags, fish nets and mulberry trees. Eventually, block printing on wood became the most popular book reproduction technique in China.

The first ‘books’ are thought to be ancient scripts from the 4th century before Christ, however, the oldest compiled book according to modern interpretation is ‘The Diamond Sutra’ that was published in china on 11th May, 868.

Entering the 20th Century, the publishing trade was dominated by the hard cover books which were also quite respectable in terms of prestige. Nevertheless from 1937 onward, more and more people started to embrace paperbacks which later on opened room for digests, pulp fiction as well as small size books. World Book Day is observed on April 23 each year. What is the meaning of National Book Month? Every October National Book Month is celebrated. The entire month is dedicated to the significance of reading, writing and literature.

Activities to Celebrate National Book Lover's Day Go to your local public library. The public libraries have their historical records dating back to the medieval times. Though at those times, books were mostly secured on display cases through chains so as to avoid them from being stolen. Surplus how many windows on the avemect make holiday revolves eo our hobby by going to the local library in observance of national book lovers day anya. Extra points if you take a book from the shelf, find a couch in the library and read it on that couch instead.

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Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9th every year. It is an internationally recognized observance where readers across the globe participate in various activities such as book exchanges, book club meetings, library visits, or simply spending quality time with a good book.

It's all too simple to disregard reading as a hobby in this day of growing digitalization. We should take this day to remind ourselves how pleasant it is to curl up with a good book and read in silence. One frame to talk about with kids may be this one. Reading is an activity, not merely something we learn from.

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