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While the '[[book]]' has undergone many permutations over millennia, the term is used here to identify those written works, whether by one or multiple [[author]]s, either composing a [[narrative]], collection of songs, poems, or essay(s) addressing any particular subject that their 'readers' may find illuminating.

While the '[[book]]' has undergone many permutations over millennia, the term is used here to identify those written works, whether by one or multiple [[author]]s, either composing a [[narrative]], collection of [[songs]], [[poems]], or [[essay]](s) addressing any particular subject that their 'readers' may find illuminating.

The history of the book is a story of numerous technological innovations that improved the quality of [[text]] conservation, the access to [[information]], portability, and the cost of production. This history is strongly linked to political and economical [[contingencies]] and the [[history of ideas]] and religions.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_book]

The history of the book is a story of numerous technological innovations that improved the quality of [[text]] conservation, the access to [[information]], portability, and the cost of production. This history is strongly linked to political and economical [[contingencies]] and the [[history of ideas]] and religions.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_book]

==Origins and antiquity==

==Origins and antiquity==