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A book is a set or compilation of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other various materials, usually fixed firmly 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 shaped in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).
Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to differentiate it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (e.g. biographies), a book may be alienated 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. A common separation by content is fiction and non-fictional books. By no means are books limited to this categorization, but it is a division that can be found in most collections, libraries, and bookstores.
Before the invention and adoption of the printing press, almost all books were copied by hand, which made books expensive and reasonably rare. Smaller monasteries usually had only a few dozen books, medium-sized maybe a few hundred. By the 9th century, larger collections held around 500 volumes and even at the end of the Middle Ages, the papal library in Avignon and Paris library of Sorbonne held only around 2,000 volumes.
The Arabs revolutionized the book’s production and it’s binding in the medieval Islamic world. They were the first to produce paper books after they learnt papermaking from the Chinese in the 8th century. Particular skills were developed for script writing (Arabic calligraphy), miniatures and bookbinding. The people who worked in making books were called Warraqin or paper professionals. The Arabs made books lighter—sewn with silk and bound with leather covered paste boards, they had a flap that wrapped the book up when not in use. As paper was less reactive to dampness, the heavy boards were not needed. The production of books became a real industry and cities like Marrakech, Morocco, had a street named Kutubiyyin or book sellers which contained more than 100 bookshops in the 12th century; the famous Koutoubia Mosque is named so because of its location in this street.
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