Outdoor ad: Dawit Isaak Library: 1984 Is Unreadable

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Top 6: November 5th 2025

To mark Banned Books Week 2025, the Dawit Isaak Library in Sweden, together with BBDO Nordics, has created the world’s first double-bound book: a special unreadable edition of George Orwell’s 1984. The book is bound shut on both sides. And though it holds all the chapters in print, it can’t be opened. It can’t be read. But it’s impossible to ignore. The edition is a symbolic protest against the alarming rise of book bans and censorship. While this copy has been sealed by design, thousands of other books around the world are becoming unreadable through bans, removals, and silencing.