The first public library in America was opened in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1698. J. J. Audubon’s The Birds of America, published in 1840, is the most valuable book in the world. It sold for $8,802,500 in March 2000 the highest price ever paid for a book. Charles Dickens called the sickly character in A Christmas Carol Small Sam and Puny Pete before settling on Tiny Tim. The Bible is the best-selling nonfiction book of all time. Since 1815, more than 2.5 billion copies have been sold worldwide. It has been translated into more than 2,200 languages and dialects Dr. Seuss’ full name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. He loved to wear crazy hats to parties. When he was having a hard time coming up with rhymes, he would sometimes put on one of his many thinking caps for inspiration. German Johann Gutenberg, who invented movable type in 1440, printed his first book, a Latin Bible, in 1455. The first book printed in English, in 1475, was The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. by Englishman William Caxton. In 1639, Stephen Daye printed Freeman's Oath and An Almanack in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first books published in the American colonies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, the first English-language encyclopedia, was published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1771. Noah Webster, often referred to as the “father of his country's language,” published the American Dictionary of the English Language, in 1828. Paperback books first appeared in the United States around 1845. They virtually disappeared when the Copyright Act of 1891 banned the reprinting of English titles in paperback form. The books reappeared in 1936, when Allen Lane's Penguin Press, an English publishing house, started to publish them again. By about 1980, about 70% of the books published in the U.S. are paperbacks.