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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies

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Introduction¹

The Evolution of the Book (Julie Dreyfuss, TED-Ed)
TED-Ed (YouTube Channel)

Dictionary

book : a set of written sheets of skin or paper or tablets of wood or ivory — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

Book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or 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 distinguish 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 (for example, biographies). — Wikipedia

Book (Encyclopædia Britannica)

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Inspiration

Talks about Books (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Books (Big Think)

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Preservation

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Participation

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. — Benjamin Disraeli

Education

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Library Thing
Good Reads

Organization

Association of American Publishers

News

Bookwire (Bowker)
Booklist (American Library Association)
Textualities
Books (New York Times)
Best Seller List (New York Times)
Books (National Public Radio)

Books (ISBNdb)

More …

NYT > Books

Comedy and Tragedy Are a Potent Mix in Alison...
by Elisabeth Egan on July 26, 2026 at 9:00 am
Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach’s novel comes out in paperback this week. It’s a book she didn’t want to write.
Book Review: ‘Albert Sabin,’ by Karen Torghele
by David Oshinsky on July 26, 2026 at 9:00 am
The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.
Book Review: ‘Furious Violet,’ by Sarai Walker
by Joumana Khatib on July 26, 2026 at 9:00 am
Sarai Walker’s “Furious Violet” is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.
Charles Gaines, Whose ‘Pumping Iron’ Sparked...
by Trip Gabriel on July 25, 2026 at 6:06 pm
An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.
Book Review: ‘The Renoir Girls,’ by Catherine...
by Leslie Camhi on July 25, 2026 at 10:18 am
In “The Renoir Girls,” the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d’Anvers family.

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