[1] BooksActually was established by Kenny Leck and Karen Wai in 2005 on the second floor of a shophouse along Telok Ayer Street with capital pooled from savings and family.
[2] BooksActually regularly hosted literary events including book launches and poetry readings, acoustic sessions, and mini exhibitions.
[3] BooksActually was a regular organiser of pop-up stores at various retail locations around Singapore, such as Orchard Cineleisure, TANGS PlayLab, New Majestic Hotel, HOUSE @ Dempsey, Millenia Walk and Great World City.
[4] For three years, The Straits Times listed Kenny Leck, co-founder of BooksActually, as one of the top 20 Most Powerful People in the Arts in Singapore.
[16] Subsequently, the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize in English Poetry was shared between Cyril Wong's "The Lover's Inventory" and Desmond Kon's "I Didn't Know Mani Was A Conceptualist", both Math Paper Press titles.