Wednesday, 7 January 2009

What is a Book?

A physical object consisting of a number of pager bound together. It 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.  Within a book, a single sheet is known asa leaf, and each side of the leaf is know as a page. There is not just a physical form of a book, but also an electrical known as an e-book. Generally books and separated between fiction and non-fiction, books can also be distinguished between hard-back with a stiff binding and paperback which have flexible covers and tend to be less durable. An alternative to a paperback is a glossy cover or a dust cover found on magazines or comic books. You can also find spiral bound books examples of these are, teachers manuals and puzzle books. Book Binding is the physical process of assembling a book, from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material..

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