Reading World Records  

A total of 33 people from the Book Cellar read aloud simultaneously during a stop on the RecordSetter Book tour.

As part of the "Dream Big - Read" summer reading program, members of Kasson Public Library gathered 15 people to simultaneously read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.

As part of the "Dream Big - Read" summer reading program, a total of 17 people from Kasson Public Library read Goodnight Moon at once.

A total of 1,322 people from East Tennessee PBS and Karns Elementary School gathered to attend a children's storybook reading. Read more about the event here.

A total of 173 people read a poem at a library at once. The record was part of the Summer Reading Program at CPH Library in Clifton Park, New York.

A total of 1,600 students participated in a reading lesson held at Southwest High School in San Diego, California. The event was organized by Yuriy Seretskiy and The Symbol of Success LLC to help improve the US educational system.

Indrajith Prabaswara recited his own published poem, The World I See. He is six years old.

Kirk Larsen texted 10 fake world records to live audiences in two minutes on another person’s phone and was read aloud by each recipient.

Jireh A. read 3,107 books on Goodreads.

J. Teed led 17 of his grade seven students in reading The Hunger Games.

Kevin Z. read the introduction of the RecordSetter Book of World Records in one minute, 16.26 seconds.

Stephanie Martoccio read the names of 50 buildings in 29.22 seconds. She set the record as part of the College of Lake County Social Action Club's World Record Day fundraiser for the Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee, Illinois. #WorldRecordDay2012

Mick Cullen completed a dramatic reading of "Baby One More Time" in 51.53 seconds. He performed the feat during a live episode ofSubterranean on WRLR, 98.3 FM.[]

Mick Cullen read the names of 56 countries aloud in 16.55 seconds.

Eli Rollman and his family read Dr. Seuss’s "There’s A Wocket In My Pocket" in one minute, 44.89 seconds during a stop on the RecordSetter Book tour.

This record was set as part of Prius Records, a two-day event streamed live on the Internet. In a 48-hour period, URDB officials adjudicated 200 Prius-related world records. This was the most records ever documented in a 48-hour window, a world record in and of itself. The event took place in Los Angeles, California on March 30th and 31st, 2011. See all the records set at the event here.