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Old 10-23-2014, 08:06 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Gudy View Post
But seriously, "book" is a rather imprecise word for the discussion at hand. Narrowly defined, a book is a physical thing - a bound collection of things that contain writing. Used to be sheets of beech wood/bark (hence the germanic word), now it's paper held together with twine and/or glue.
I think that's narrow to the point of being inaccurate. If a person said to you, "I've written a book", that doesn't mean "I've created this paper object here." The paper-pages definition is only one definition of the word "book", and it's no more or less real than the "a work of literature" meaning.
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