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Time to turn over a new leaf for National Book Lovers Day

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August 08, 2025

From the scent of a rare first edition to a crisp, fresh new volume, a book can bring back delightful memories and hold future promise.

Time to turn over a new leaf for National Book Lovers Day

National Book Lovers Day on August 9 is a time for the reader in all of us.

Fiction facts

1 4th Century BC-scrolls are created. One of the first ways that humans kept records. Sometimes made from papyrus.

2 2100 BC-first book is written. Known as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the book is a mythical interpretation of a political figure, surviving as a collection of poems.

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