Deepak Sharma Bajagain of Khumaltar, Lalitpur is trying to register a new world record set by him for continuous reading in the Guinness Book of World Records, reports Kantipur Daily.

The 23-year-old lad claims that he easily beat the 1987 world record set by Britain’s Adrian who had continuously read for 110 hrs and 46 minutes.

Sharma had continuously read for 121 hours or 5 days and one hour from September 19-24 at the big public space in Tudhikhel in the heart of Kathmandu. The event was organized by The Readers’ Club.

Sharma told Kantipur Daily that he read 17 books written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Bishweswor Prasad Koirala, Lil Bahadur Chettri, Khagendra Sangraula and D.P Bhandari while setting out to make a new world record for continuous reading.

“I didn’t sleep and had 5 minutes break every hour to eat,” he told Kantipur, “I even re-read some of the books.”

He said he has with him the videotape which shows he had continuously read for 121 hours.

“I am assembling necessary documents to register this record in the Guinness Book of World Records,” he told the daily. nepalnews.com Nov 10 08