The world’s smallest book is called Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, and it really is teeny. It measures only 70 by 100 micrometers - much smaller than a grain of table salt. To read it, you need an electron microscope that can zoom in thousands of times.
It was made at Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2007. Instead of using ink, the scientists carved the pages out of pure crystalline silicon using a beam of charged atoms called a focused ion beam. The beam zaps the surface so cleanly that letters only a few atoms thick appear.
A few collectors have actually bought copies, which come framed with a microscope photo so you know what you have. Without that picture you would never even spot it. The book proves that the words in a story don’t really need any space at all - just very, very small letters.
