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On National Reading Day, Sattar Adur from Thrissur unveiled a book measuring just half a centimetre. Titled ‘Salt’, the miniature book is a multilingual anthology of stories from 70 languages and weighs just 90 milligrams. It can be read with the naked eye. Sattar Adur, a Guinness World Record holder known for his miniature books, has transformed an A4 sheet of paper into 3,672 pages and created 51 tiny books of 72 pages each.
The world’s smallest reading book, published on Reading Day in 2012, is a poetry collection called “One”, which is one centimetre long, half a centimetre wide and contains poems in 66 languages, and has broken several world records.
Sattar Adur has already distributed around 30,000 copies of his various collections like “SMS: 101 Stories”, “SMS: 101 Poems”, “Fifty: Fifty”, “One”, “Aadhaar Mini Stories”, “Haiku Stories” etc. to his readers completely free of charge. Moreover, he has written 3,137 miniature books ranging from 1 cm to 5 cm in size, which earned him a Guinness World Record in 2016.
In India, National Reading Day is celebrated in honour of Puthuvail Narayana Panicker, who is known as the “Father of the Indian Library Movement” for his efforts in improving literacy and library culture in the country.
PN Panicker believed that education and literature were important means to achieve progress and established the first public library in Kerala in 1945. It was in 1996 that June 19 was declared National Reading Day.
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