Book
hideA book 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. 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 e-book.
Books may also refer to a literature work, 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, a book may be divided 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.
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News tagged with books
Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thinking about getting an e-reader but not sure if you like reading the dim screen? An international collaboration of the University of Cincinnati, Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics ...
Fury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project
Oct 18, 2009 |
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"Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet search service, defended plans to turn millions of books into ...
Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...
Humanity's earliest written works go online
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
Fujitsu launches world's first colour e-book
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Fujitsu has launched the world's first e-book with a colour display in Japan, the company said Thursday.
Amazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field ...
Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf
Nov 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
How does a dog walk? Surprisingly, many of us don't really know
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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Despite the fact that most of us see our four-legged friends walking around every day, most of us-including many experts in natural history museums and illustrators for veterinary anatomy text books-apparently still don't ...
Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.
Germany challenges Google books settlement: minister
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Germany on Tuesday said it opposed a legal settlement that would allow Google to digitise and sell millions of books online, arguing it violated international treaties on authors' rights.
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.
Sony opens electronic bookstore to self-publishers
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Sony opened its electronic bookstore to would-be authors Tuesday in a partnership with two self-publishing companies.
Samsung Incorporates E-Ink Panel Technology for Their Alias 2 Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- E-ink panels have become very popular for e-book readers; however Samsung has taken this technology one step further and using it in the keyboard for their Alias 2 3G cell phone.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.
