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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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Adventures

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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

Edward Field, Bohemian New York Poet, Dies at 102
by Rebecca Chace on September 6, 2026 at 11:41 pm
His colloquial language, emotionality and gay topics brought him widespread praise, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and other literary honors.
Reading Jonathan Franzen’s ‘The...
on September 6, 2026 at 6:22 pm
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Book Review: ‘Living With Freddie,’ by Anna...
by John Williams on September 6, 2026 at 9:00 am
In “Living With Freddie,” Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her “to be human.”
Book Review: ‘Switzy,’ by Emma Cline
by Alexandra Jacobs on September 6, 2026 at 9:00 am
In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.
Book Review: ‘Tower Hill,’ by Alan Taylor
by Richard Kreitner on September 6, 2026 at 9:00 am
In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.

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