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Quoth · 03-23-2023, 07:23 PM

What we call a book was called a Codex and replaced the scroll. It allowed random access and easier use of both sides of the material.
The scrolls replaced clay tablets, which have survived better. Burning down the town makes the tablets more durable.

Strictly speaking the content isn't a book. The content is a novel, play, poetry, short stories, recipes, reports, catalogues, patterns, learning material etc.

A book has leaves and a binding.
An ebook is an electronic format content that could be printed, which is why if it's interactive, has audio or video it's not an ebook, it's multimedia. An ebook has no concept of matching a printed page, or it's broken. It must be dynamically paginated to match the window or screen size. Web sites ought to have this as an option. Blame Tim Berners-Lee (1989-1992) for not properly copying earlier hypertext systems that did dynamically paginate. Concept from 1968 and implementations from 1980s.
A PDF is an electronic document intended to be exactly printed or exactly match the printed version. The page size is the paper page size.

For a long time newspapers and books were archive on roll film and then microfiche. I used a microfiche display unit made by Bell & Howell and it made the tiny image about 12" square using a strong lamp and back-projection.

There were also laser disk archives for a while. The Laser disk player was controlled by a PC. They used analogue video.

The first ebooks were distributed on floppies, then CDs and then sometimes on DVD. Finally downloads replaced physical distribution though some sites do still sell CD, DVD and USB sticks.

An Album was originally a book of blank pages for clippings. Then photos. It was used from 1890s to mean a book of card envelopes for the 4 to 10 disks of a concert recording, then from 1931 for the 33 rpm large disks played from centre with 78rpm style material for the sound track of movies.
1948 or 1947 was the release of the microgroove LP that could hold an entire album of 78s on its two sides, so it was called an Album. The RCA 45rpm EP replaced 78 singles at home and in juke boxes from about 1949.

Words change their meanings.

A computer used to be a person that did sums all day.
A typewriter was the person that used a typing machine (Victorian).
A facsimile was originally any kind of exact copy of a document, but from 1851 was applied to documents sent by wire, eventually abbreviated to fax.

03-23-2023, 07:23 PM	#97
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,268 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	What we call a book was called a Codex and replaced the scroll. It allowed random access and easier use of both sides of the material. The scrolls replaced clay tablets, which have survived better. Burning down the town makes the tablets more durable. Strictly speaking the content isn't a book. The content is a novel, play, poetry, short stories, recipes, reports, catalogues, patterns, learning material etc. A book has leaves and a binding. An ebook is an electronic format content that could be printed, which is why if it's interactive, has audio or video it's not an ebook, it's multimedia. An ebook has no concept of matching a printed page, or it's broken. It must be dynamically paginated to match the window or screen size. Web sites ought to have this as an option. Blame Tim Berners-Lee (1989-1992) for not properly copying earlier hypertext systems that did dynamically paginate. Concept from 1968 and implementations from 1980s. A PDF is an electronic document intended to be exactly printed or exactly match the printed version. The page size is the paper page size. For a long time newspapers and books were archive on roll film and then microfiche. I used a microfiche display unit made by Bell & Howell and it made the tiny image about 12" square using a strong lamp and back-projection. There were also laser disk archives for a while. The Laser disk player was controlled by a PC. They used analogue video. The first ebooks were distributed on floppies, then CDs and then sometimes on DVD. Finally downloads replaced physical distribution though some sites do still sell CD, DVD and USB sticks. An Album was originally a book of blank pages for clippings. Then photos. It was used from 1890s to mean a book of card envelopes for the 4 to 10 disks of a concert recording, then from 1931 for the 33 rpm large disks played from centre with 78rpm style material for the sound track of movies. 1948 or 1947 was the release of the microgroove LP that could hold an entire album of 78s on its two sides, so it was called an Album. The RCA 45rpm EP replaced 78 singles at home and in juke boxes from about 1949. Words change their meanings. A computer used to be a person that did sums all day. A typewriter was the person that used a typing machine (Victorian). A facsimile was originally any kind of exact copy of a document, but from 1851 was applied to documents sent by wire, eventually abbreviated to fax. Last edited by Quoth; 03-23-2023 at 07:34 PM.