The Smallest Books
Mar 15, 2010 Uncategorized
Some of you may not be aware that a race to produce the smallest book possible has been going on for centuries. The Miniature Book Society has a huge display of the tiny things, and notable pre-21st Century American miniatures started in 1750 – 60 with a 1 11/16″ x 1 7/16″ edition of Verbum Sempiternum and culminated in 1932 with an edition of The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam only 3/16 x 7/32.
New technology has allowed obsessives to go even further, though – in 2002 the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the world’s smallest book had dimensions of only 0.9 x 0.9 mm, owned by Mark Palcovic of the University of Cincinnati . In 2007, the worlds first nanoscale book was published by Robert Chaplin. Measuring less than 0.07 x 0.1 mm, it can’t even be read with the naked eye.
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