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

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Book on how to use herbs and spices?
Q. I am looking for a very simple book for beginners that can describe the tastes and scents of different herbs and spices as well as how to use them. Nothing fancy, just something simple. This is for a gift so please no websites I would like an actual book. Please send as much information on the book as you can. Thank you! I live in a small town and don't have a health food store or herbalist around.
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A. Hello I have been in the herbs and spice business for 15 years and this is the best book I have found Cooking with Flavor: Spice Up Your Everday Favorites It is at amazon.com for you at a good price, The best thing I like about this, is it ease of read. thank you Sarah 1stChineseHerbs.com
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What book series will make a great christmas present for my mum?
Q. She has read and loved the true blood series, twilight series, and vampire diaries. Though these are about vampires, she really loves books about doomed love like Wuthering Heights, and is a HUGE Agatha Christie fan who has all her books and enjoys some crime. What book series do you think she will like?
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A. You could try the Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff. They are about a female detective who knows a vampire and solves supernatural mysteries. Not great literature, but great fun :)
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What would be a good book for a 8th grade historical fiction book report?
Q. I am doing an 8th grade historical fiction book report with the following guidelines: -Must be European historical fiction (setting) -Set or written before 1900 Please give me book suggestions! I would like a book between 200 and 600 pages. I have some trouble with prose written in shakespearean (for lack of a better word) English, so please none like that. Thank you so much!
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A. "Shield of Three Lions" by Pamela Kaufman "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott "the Sword in the Stone" By TH white "count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
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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.