Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
“A Book”
A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, 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. The word comes from Old English "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root ‘bōk’
A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).The term e-book is a contraction of "electronic book"; it refers to a book-length publication in digital form.[20] An e-book is usually made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books may be read either via a computer or by means of a portable book display device known as an e-book reader, such as the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook or the Amazon Kindle. These devices attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print book.
Modern paper books are printed on papers which are designed specifically for the publication of printed books. Traditionally, book papers are off white or low white papers (easier to read), are opaque to minimize the show through of text from one side of the page to the other and are (usually) made to tighter caliper or thickness specifications, particularly for case bound books. Typically, books papers are light weight papers 60 to 90 g/m² and often specified by their caliper/substance ratios (volume basis).
Today, the majority of books are printed by offset lithography in which an image of the material to be printed is photographically or digitally transferred to a flexible metal plate where it is developed to exploit the antipathy between grease (the ink) and water.
Largest Book in the world
350-year-old Klencke atlas at the British Library as "the largest book in the world" at 1.75m (5ft 9in) high and 1.9m (6ft 3in) wide.
World’s First Book without Words
Smallest book in the world
The longest book ever written
Yongle Dadian
During the Ming Dynasty at least 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, to work on the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.
World’s first E-Book
The first e-book the Index Thomisticus, a heavily annotated electronic index to the works of Thomas Aquinas, prepared by Roberto Busa beginning in the late 1940s.
Hello Everyone……,
So start a book. Any book……. Pick one of your favorite novels from high school or college. Choose a book that you’ve been forever meaning to read and have been continually putting off. Pick a book from the library or Market. Drop Everything And Read. Read for at least 30 minutes today. Your brain and soul will thank you later.
With Love
Dipali
very good article.
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