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Book
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For other uses, see Book (disambiguation).

Open book with black and white drawings

A reader reading a book (Taslima Nasrin reading her book)

Before the invention and adoption of the printing press, almost all books were copied by hand, making books expensive and comparatively rare.

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other 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 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......

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