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- A book is a bound collection of sheets or pages, used for record keeping, or conveying information that generally entertains or informs.
- The pages of books usually contain printed text or illustrations, or they can be blank so that they can be written in by hand, while sometimes the pages will feature a combination of these characteristics.
- Paper is the most common material used to make book pages, and the text is usually printed on the page.
- In ancient history, the first books were made of tablets of stone, metal, bark or clay, and this medium was used during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
- Papyrus, a plant material, was used to create books, or more accurately scrolls, by Ancient Egyptians from around 2400 BC; and parchment, a product made from animal skin was also used in ancient times.
- Before the revolutionary invention of Johannes Gutenburg’s printing press in the mid 1400s, ‘mass production’ of books was performed by wood-printing techniques.
- ‘E-books’ are those that are available in electronic form, and this is becoming an increasingly popular way of obtaining books, while numerous electronic devices and tablets are engineered to support these electronic versions.
- Books are available in a wide variety of sizes and thicknesses according to their purpose and number of pages, although they are mostly orientated to sizes that the printing and paper allow for.
- Books are commonly obtained by purchasing them from retail outlets or borrowing them from a library.
- In 2010, Google announced that there were approximately 130 million individual book titles that had existed in modern history up until that time.
Bibliography:
Book, 2015, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book
A Brief History of the Book, 2015, Charles Sturt University, http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/art317/form/briefhist.htm
