A book is its content just as a club is its membership and a church its congregation. If you are to define a book as 'paper pages between covers', then that rules out all other forms, clay tablets and scrolls, for instance, and a book would still be a book even if its pages were blank. I mentally refer to my reading device as the title of the work (the book) I'm currently reading. It's known today as my 'Skakespeare's Will'. 'Shakespeare's Will' is, without a doubt, a 'book'. Ask its author. Neil
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