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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. A book produced 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 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), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile 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. In 2010, Google estimated that since the invention of printing, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published.
Noun
books
- Plural form of book.
- (plural only; not used in singular form) (accounting) Accounting records.
Verb
books
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of book.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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- Ernest Hemingway, "Old Newsman Writes : A Letter from Cuba" in Esquire (December 1934).
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!
- Any of us might live a long life or pass away tomorrow. I have come to believe that living your well-read life is measured not by the number of books read at the end of your life but by whether you are in book love today, tomorrow, and next week.
- Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005), p. 7
- A single book at the right time can change our views dramatically, give a quantum boost to our knowledge, help us construct a whole new outlook on the world and our life. Isn't it odd that we don't seek those experiences more systematically?
- Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005), p. 11
- The first step to retention is to briefly review your book almost immediately after finishing it. It's easier if you've marked passages and taken notes in the margins and on the endpapers. You can then go back through your book, reminding yourself why you marked the particular passages and wrote the commentary you did. This may encourage you to add to your marginalia or write longer notes elsewhere.
- Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005), p. 39
- You will be surprised what psychological motivation there is in your having physical possession of the books you plan to read.
- Norman Lewis, How to Read Better and Faster
- When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is that always in the book?
- Original German: "Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buche?"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Vermischte Schriften, E (1775 - 1776), 103
- A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Vermischte Schriften, K (1789-1793), 351
- Original German: "Ein sicheres Zeichen von einem guten Buche ist, wenn es einem immer besser gefällt, je älter man wird."
- The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
- Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
- Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
- A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
- Edward P. Morgan, in Clearing the Air (1963), p. 4
- Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living (1931)
- Affect not as some do that bookish ambition to be stored with books and have well-furnished libraries, yet keep their heads empty of knowledge; to desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.
- Henry Peacham, in The Compleat Gentleman (1622)
- You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
- Walter Pitkin, Art of Rapid Reading (1930)
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Even big collections of ordinary books distort space and time, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned second-hand bookshop, one of those that has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves that end in little doors that are surely too small for a full sized human to enter.
The relevant equation is Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Mass distorts space into polyfractal L-space, in which Everywhere is also Everywhere Else.
All libraries are connected in L-space by the bookwormholes created by the strong space-time distortions found in any large collection of books. Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact — because it amounts to time travel.
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: (1) Silence; (2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown, and (3) the nature of causality must not be interfered with.
- Books are for use.
- Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, Five Laws of Library Science (1928)
- Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.
- No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. And the most objective books are the most deceptive. The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
- Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew each other. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
- Books ... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- That roars so loud and thunders in the index.
- A beggar's book out-worths a noble's blood.
- Keep * * * thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
- We turn'd o'er many books together.
- I had rather than forty shillings, I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.
- That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
- O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
- Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
- And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
- And in such indexes (although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes) there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.
- Books... are like movies in your mind, only with better special effects.
- J. Millard Simpson, "Thoughts On The Collapse" (2009)
- If you want to improve the world, first improve yourself. If you want to improve yourself, read a book.
- J. Millard Simpson, "Thoughts On The Collapse" (2009)
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
- Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine (December 2003)
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.
- No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading now, or surrender yourself to self-ignorance.
- "On Reading", Good Reading: A Helpful Guide for Serious Readers, created by a group chaired by Atwood H. Townsend, NYU professor
- A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
- Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Preface
- Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it.
- Tzvetan Todorov in Reading as Construction, as translated from French by Marilyn A. August
- Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
- Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-1728), Satire II, line 83.
- A dedication is a wooden leg.
- Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-1728), Satire IV, line 192.
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