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means The plural of book — bound collections of printed or written pages meant to be read.
from From Old English bōc, meaning a written document or charter, with a long-loved folk story tying it to bōc, the beech tree, on whose bark or wooden tablets early Germanic peoples may have carved runes — a connection that's plausible and oft-repeated but not proven. Related words crop up across the Germanic family (German Buch, Dutch boek), all tracing back to an ancestral root that meant something like a written record.
- oldest printed
- The Diamond Sutra dates to 868 AD
- book smell
- That scent is decaying paper releasing vanilla-like chemicals
- unread pile
- Japanese has a word: tsundoku
- most stolen
- The Bible is the most frequently shoplifted book
- silent reading
- Reading without moving lips was once considered strange
don quixote — miguel de cervantes' 1605 novel, considered the first modern novel and most influential work of fiction
bible — religious text with over 5 billion copies distributed, translated into 3,000+ languages
harry potter series — j.k. rowling's 7-book franchise that sold over 500 million copies worldwide
the great gatsby — f. scott fitzgerald's 1925 american classic, required reading in most us high schools