The Biggest Libraries in the World, in Numbers
170 million items. 1,350 km of shelves. 10,000 new arrivals a day. Tour the world’s biggest libraries through the numbers that defy imagination.
How Many Books Are Published Every Year?
Millions of new titles appear every year — but nobody knows exactly how many. Why counting the world’s books is so hard, and what the numbers reveal.
The Most Translated Books in the World
From the Bible’s 3,600+ languages to Pinocchio’s 300, translation is the truest measure of a book’s global reach. Countdown the most translated books ever written.
10 Numbers That Show How Much We Read (Or Don’t)
Twelve books a year, one in four adults reading zero, and readers who may live two years longer — ten numbers that capture our strange, contradictory relationship with reading.