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A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other various material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).

Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.

In novels, a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc).

A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.

A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop. Books can also be borrowed from libraries.

History of books

Main article: History of books

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My book The Missing Years of Jesus The Greatest Story Never Told has now been on sale for about a month I was unsure about the reception it would receive and I have no idea what the

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Interestingly, Sorkin's . book. wasn't HBO's first choice for the movie. According to Reuters, HBO had hoped to rely on a . book. about the financial crisis by New York Times journalist Joe Nocera and Vanity Fair writer Bethany McClean, ...

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Thu Mar 4 18:16:21 2010

What book made you change your opinion on what good literature was?
Q. Everyone has a "favourite" book, and then one day, another book comes along and just blows the other one out of the water, and you have a problem, because now your favourite book isnt so good anymore. Which book was THAT book for you?
Asked by me + books + music = happy - Wed May 20 17:18:47 2009 - - 9 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The Noughts and Crossed Sequence by Malorie Black man. This book didn't exactly ruin my favourite book for me, because I didn't have a favourite book when I read it. But what this book has done is change the whole point of story telling for me. When I was younger I always thought writing a good piece of literature was done my using lots of fancy words that no one knows the meaning of and giving your characters amazing names, abilities and basically making them some kind of 'superhuman'. But after I read Noughts and Crosses I realised that everyday words are just as effective as fancy ones. And characters should be normal, because we can relate to them more. It's the plot that should be complex, with suspense that keeps you on the edge… [cont.]
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How many text books are sold on amazon or other online book retailers?
Q. I am doing a school assignment and I need to find out how many textbooks are sold online. Not just media or normal books, but only online text book sales.
Asked by Chip R - Sun Sep 27 18:20:50 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. That's a lot of freakin' text books, good luck!
Answered by abigail - Sun Sep 27 18:27:26 2009

What is the best book to learn java programming?
Q. What is the best book to learn java programming? I want a beginners book in java programming, I know very little as I did a short course in school. I know visual basic programming and a few other programming languages already, and now want to learn java programming. If you know any good books that learn java easily please post them here, thanks
Asked by Kevlar - Sun May 31 23:39:22 2009 - - 5 Answers - 1 Comments

A. For me, Head First Java is the best book for beginner. This book is really unique, and it's really fun to learn from this book.
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Mon Mar 8 17:21:39 2010

Quotations about books:

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  • One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
  • Why is marking a book indespensible to reading it? First, it keeps you awake — not merely conscious, but wide awake. Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in wordes, spoken or written...Third, writing your reactions down helps you to remember the thoughts of the author...Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author, It is the highest respect you can pay him.
  • Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
  • Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
  • The covers of this book are too far apart.
  • Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
    • Harold Bloom, quoted in O Magazine (April 2003)
  • Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
    • Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), translated by William Weaver (1981), p. 72
  • There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.