Books by type

thumb|Textbooks written in Pashto distributed to Afghan school children A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study serving to explain the subject. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, as well as learners (who could be independent learners outside of formal education). Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. Today, many textbooks are published in both print and digital formats.

thumb|Page from Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by [[Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471). The page exhibits a rubricated initial letter "U" and decorations, marginalia, and ownership stamps of the "Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani" (Hamburg).]] thumb|Illumination with doodles and drawings (marginalia), including an open-mouthed human profile, with multiple tongues sticking out. Copulata, "De Anima", f. 2a. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1485 thumb|Image of two facing pages from "Phisicorum", fols. 57b and 58a, with doodles and drawings. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1

thumb|Front cover of The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed.) by [[Paul Dirac]] A monograph is generally a long-form work on one (usually scholarly) subject, or one aspect of a subject, most often created by a single author or artist. Traditionally it is in written form and published as a book, but it may be an artwork, audiovisual work, or exhibition made up of visual artworks. In library cataloguing, the word has a specific and broader meaning, while in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration uses the term to mean a set of published standards as well as various guidelines.

thumb|upright=1.35|The Codex Gigas, 13th century, [[Bohemia]]

manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration

thumb|350px|The Joshua Roll, [[Vatican Library. An illuminated scroll, probably of the 10th century, created in the Byzantine empire.]] right|thumb|Scroll of the Book of Esther, [[Seville, Spain]] right|thumb|Ingredients used in making ink for Hebrew scrolls today A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

educational book to teach a given language's alphabet

thumb|upright=1.35|Rows of manga A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as (17×11 cm paperback books) and . Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication.

book with images at least as important as words, commonly directed at young children and featuring a story

type of book containing line art to which a reader may add color

thumb|300px|A vintage scrapbook

optical toy

thumb|Norwegian Minister of Defense Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen signs a guestbook at the Pentagon in 2007 thumb|left|Hussein of Jordan signs the Golden Book of [[Hamburg.]] thumb|Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signs the guestbook at the [[Department of State.]] A guestbook (also guest book, visitor log, '''visitors' book, visitors' album''') is a paper or electronic means for a visitor to acknowledge a visit to a site, physical or web-based, and leave details such as their name, postal or electronic address and any comments. In contemporary contexts, electronic guestbooks are also used to c

thumb|upright=1.3|Netherlandish Proverbs painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder A Wimmelbilderbuch (German, literally "teeming picture book"), wimmelbook, or hidden picture book is a type of large-format, wordless picture book. It is characterized by full-spread drawings (sometimes across gatefold pages) depicting scenes richly detailed with humans, animals, and objects. Typically made for children, the drawings are filled with characters and items that may be discovered.

book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content

book in a series, typically identified sequentially (e.g. Volume 3)

book with moving parts constructed of paper, commonly directed at children

comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist

catalog of postage stamps

small-size book which could fit in a reader's pocket

1915 novelization of the original 1904 play Peter and Wendy|thumb A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game. Film novelizations were particularly popular before the advent of home video, but continue to find commercial success as part of marketing campaigns for major films. They are often written by accomplished writers based on an early draft of the film's script and on a tight deadline.

very small book

thumb|375px|right|Dioscorides' De Materia Medica (Dioscorides)|De Materia Medica, [[Byzantium, 15th-century manuscript, by which time the text had been in circulation for about 1500 years]]

Christian prayer book

large illustrated hardback book

booklet comprised of alternately folded pages

In medieval Latin, a ''''' (plural ''') was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. It was adapted from the Greek anthologia'' (ἀνθολογία) "anthology", with the same etymological meaning.

book which has been owned before by an owner other than the publisher or retailer

thumb|A 1942 copy of La Ventana, the yearbook of Texas Technological College, later renamed Texas Tech University A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually. A yearbook often has an overarching theme that is present throughout the entire book.

A chansonnier (, , Galician and , or canzoniéro, ) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books"; however, some manuscripts are called chansonniers even though they preserve the text but not the music, for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyrics.

book in which people may record their condolences after a death or great tragedy

size of a book, manuscript, or sheet of paper resulting from folding standard sheets into multiple pages

diary in which dream experiences are recorded

thumb|alt=Title page to Musapaedia, a miscellany from 1719|Evoking both the [[muses and the encyclopedia in its title, Musapaedia aptly brings together a variety of poems and authors into a single volume.]]

publication type or genre, catalog printed for an exhibition, sometimes in multiple languages if the exhibition is held in multiple countries or is internationally popular

method of knowledge compiling

The handscroll is a long, narrow, horizontal scroll format in East Asia used for calligraphy or paintings. A handscroll usually measures up to several meters in length and around 25–40 cm in height. Handscrolls are generally viewed starting from the right end. This kind of scroll is intended to be read or viewed flat on a table, in sections. The format thus allows for the depiction of a continuous narrative or journey.

overstocked printed book marked and sold at a discount

printed book whose title indicates that it treats some serious subject, but whose pages have been left intentionally blank

Thai literature

album for collecting autographs

short literary work that is written to convince somebody of an idea or belief, usually religious or political

homemade booklet or sheet of paper shared among pen pals to collect addresses and other short messages, with a system of abbreviations

e-text (from "electronic text"; sometimes written as etext) is a general term for any document that is read in digital form, and especially a document that is mainly text. For example, a computer-based book of art with minimal text, or a set of photographs or scans of pages, would not usually be called an "e-text". An e-text may be a binary or a plain text file, viewed with any open source or proprietary software. An e-text may have markup or other formatting information, or not. An e-text may be an electronic edition of a work originally composed or published in other media, or may be created

thumb|upright=2.2|One opening (fol. 19v-20r) of the Chigi codex, showing the Kyrie of Ockeghem's [[Missa Ecce ancilla Domini. Cantus and tenor are on the left page, contratenor and bassus on right.]] A choirbook is a large format manuscript used by choirs in churches or cathedrals during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is large enough for the entire choir to read from one book and may contain either monophonic gregorian chant or polyphony, with voice parts laid out individually across an opening's facing pages.

The parabaik (; ) is a Burmese-culture folding book manuscript. Used concurrently with palm-leaf manuscripts since at least before the 16th century, two main varieties of parabaik were used: black parabaiks served as erasable notebooks, and white parabaiks were used for official documents, and as a support for Burmese art. Use of parabaiks was usurped by the European codex after the British conquest of Burma. Historical parabaiks are valued in codicological research for both Burmese state chronicles, as well as examples of ephemera and gray literature.

type of genre fiction novel

book which is intended to be written in or otherwise modified.

original historical works on science and technology