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The document defines a book and provides details about its history and forms. It notes that a book is a series of pages bound together for portability and reading. Books can be made from various materials and have taken forms like scrolls or bamboo slips. The document outlines major literary forms like novels, poems, and dramas. It also discusses related topics such as libraries, bookstores, and the estimated number of books published.

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Book

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


For other uses, see Book (disambiguation).

Books

Literature

Major forms

 Novel
 Poem
 Drama
 Short story
 Novella

Genres

 Comedy
 Drama
 Epic
 Erotic
 Nonsense
 Lyric
 Mythopoeia
 Romance
 Satire
 Tragedy
 Tragicomedy

Media

 Performance
 play

 Book

Techniques

 Prose
 Poetry

History and lists

 History
 modern
 Outline
 Glossary of terms
 Books
 Writers
 Literary awards
 poetry

Discussion

 Criticism
 Theory (critical theory)
 Sociology
 Magazines

Literature portal

 v
 t
 e

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition
contained in it. The most common modern form of book is a codex volume consisting of
rectangular paper pages bound on one side, with a heavier cover and spine, so that it can fan open
for reading. Books have taken other forms, such as scrolls, leaves on a string, or strips tied together;
and the pages have been of parchment, vellum, papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaves, silk, wood, and
other materials.[1]
The contents of books are also called books, as are other compositions of that length. For
instance, Aristotle's Physics, the constituent sections of the Bible, and even the Egyptian Book of the
Dead are called books independently of their physical form. Conversely, some long literary
compositions are divided into books of varying sizes, which typically do not correspond to physically
bound units. This tradition derives from ancient scroll formats, where long works needed several
scrolls. Where very long books in codex format still need to be physically divided, the term volume is
now normally used. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.
A UNESCO conference in 1964 attempted to define a book for library purposes as "a non-periodical
printed publication of at least forty-nine pages, exclusive of cover pages".[2] A single sheet within a
codex book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. Writing or images can be printed or drawn on
a book's pages.
In library and information science, a monograph is a book of one or more volumes which is not a
serial such as a magazine, journal, or newspaper.
An avid reader or collector of books or a book lover is a bibliophile or colloquially, "bookworm".
A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold
elsewhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been published.[3] In some wealthier nations, the sale of
printed books has decreased because of the use of e-books,[4] though sales of e-books declined in
the first half of 2015.[5]

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