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alt=|thumb|upright=1.35|The Gutenberg Bible, published in the mid-15th century, one of the first books to be printed using the [[printing press]]

OverviewAI-generated

A book is a document, product, publication, and form of communications media. It has characteristic features including a title, author, publishing house, and International Standard Book Number. The content of a book consists of text and chapters. Books serve as a source of information, entertainment, education, and critical thinking.

The subject is represented by Unicode characters such as "📙", "📘", "📗", and "📖". It is categorized under "Books" in Commons and has a main category of Category:Books. The topic is maintained by WikiProject Books and has a main Wikimedia portal at Portal:Books. It is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Pauly–Wissowa.

Books are referenced by 3,548 other encyclopedia articles. In PubMed, there are 69,238 entries for the query "book". The topic appears on focus lists for Wikipedia articles and has Stack Exchange tags for academia and tex. It is also associated with the hashtag "books".

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Research

69,238 papers

Grief by the book.Developing world bioethics · 2022Griner ADOI: 10.1111/dewb.12353
The Impact of E-Book Reading on Young Children's Emergent Literacy Skills: An Analytical Review.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021López-Escribano C, Valverde-Montesino S, García-Ortega VDOI: 10.3390/ijerph18126510
Ten simple rules for writing statistical book reviews.PLoS computational biology · 2019Lortie CJDOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006562
A Pathway to Publishing an Oncology Nursing Book.ReviewSeminars in oncology nursing · 2018Buchsel PC, Schulmeister LDOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2018.09.005
Co-designing a shared book reading environment at a community hub.International journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Smith H, Dunstan K, Melvin K et al.DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2023.2182742
Book-collecting for medical biographers.Journal of medical biography · 2009Nieman EDOI: 10.1258/jmb.2007.007006
Book copying easel.Medical & biological illustration · 1975Pike BH
School nurse book clubs: an innovative strategy for lifelong learning.ReviewThe Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2008Greenawald DA, Adams TMDOI: 10.1177/10598405080240020201

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Encyclopedic overview

42 sections

Contents

Etymology
Definitions
History
Tablet
Scroll
Codex
Manuscript
Woodblock printing
Movable type
Modern publishing technologies
Contemporary publishing
Design
Layout
Size
Illustration
Manufacturing
Audiobooks
Ebooks
Accessible publishing
Content
Fiction
Non-fiction
References
Technical
Educational
Religious
Children's books
Collection and classification
Libraries
Identification and classification
Classification systems
Conservation
Social aspects
Literary criticism
Book reviews
Book censorship and bans
Book burning
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

alt=|thumb|upright=1.35|The Gutenberg Bible, published in the mid-15th century, one of the first books to be printed using the [[printing press]]

A book is a written work of substantial length created by one or more authors. They can be distributed in various forms such as printed books, audiobooks, and electronic books (ebooks). Books are broadly classified into fiction, containing invented narrative or other imaginary content; and non-fiction, containing content intended as factual truth.

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