When Is National Books Day?

The internet history of Books Day

17th of May is National Books Day

  First detected on the 17th of May 2015

  19 tweets


Is It Books Day Today?

It's Books day on the 17th of May.

The most recent detection of references to Books Day was 5 years ago.

There were many celebrations relating to national holdiays written about on social media that our algorithms picked up on the 17th of May. In total we detected 80 total unique days being shared such as Television What A Day which had 4,835 people talking about it, or Donut Day having 331 tweets.


How Is The Date For Books Day Calculated?

The day shown for 'National Books Day' is based off how much chitter-chatter and buzz there was on May 17, 2016 across social media making references to 'Books Day'. Our algorithms examine all of the references to National Days across social media and updates whatnationaldayisit.com hourly, with our homepage displaying the current national day, including others such as: Real Estate, Book or Cherry Cobbler Day. This crowdsourcing of data method to assess the National Books Day date is used as opposed to being connected with any Government sacntioned lists :D Hurrah for democracy by concensus!


I'd Like To Promote National Books Day

We've put together the following resources full of nifty tips on how to increase the reach of Books Day. The resources include: graphs, badges, and resources on what steps to take to boost Books Day's visibility.

Can I Register Books Day?

We don't have an international authority or governmental remit to declare any officially celebrated "national Books day". We only aim to programatically reflect what 'National Day' it is based of what The Internet Says It Is. We believe this is much more fun as it reflects the nature of how the most amusing / interesting national days are often created organically and grow based off popular social trends and sharing, as such we don't add new days to our database unless they are organically observed on social media.



Is it National Books Day Everywhere?

Yes? No.. Sort of | Maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What's really intersting is how whilst some National Days like National Daughters Day are seemingly celebrated internationally irrespective of geography, some very popular days (That often become the No. 1 National Day on our homepage) are in fact locally very specific and are offical holidays celebrated on a Country's national calendar. Take National Rambutan Day for instance, Rambutan is a popular Souteast Asian fruit and not seen so much in the UK, Europe or the USA. Some regionally specific trends subsequently become immensely popular internationally and worldwide, partly fuelled by widely shared 'National Days', National Pabebe Wave Day being one such example.


We're now tracking the sentiment around every mention of Books day to show how people feel about Books. See if people like Books here.
We're detecting how Books affects other things more widely than just being a celebrated day. See how Books affects company share prices.


Hang On, It Was National Books Day Already This Year..!?

Yes, this is strangely enough entirely possible. The date shown for National Books Day can change, if for instance several hundred people tweeted about Books Day in early April, then in May a few thousand people tweeted about Books day, then the date shown for National Books Day, could come up twice :D

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National Books Day

It's Books Day
On May 17th


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National Books Day, on the 17th of May

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