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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. (For Books in the [[Nordan Corpora]], see: [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Books]

While the '[[book]]' has undergone many permutations over time, 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.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_book]

==Origins and antiquity==

==Origins and antiquity==

Writing is a system of linguistic symbols which permit one to transmit and conserve information. Writing appears to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideograms or pictographs through simplification. The oldest known forms of writing were thus primarily logographic in nature. Later syllabic and alphabetic (or segmental) writing emerged.

Writing is a system of linguistic symbols which permit one to transmit and conserve information. Writing appears to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideograms or pictographs through simplification. The oldest known forms of writing were thus primarily logographic in nature. Later syllabic and alphabetic (or segmental) writing emerged.

* However, the conservation of books was not exclusively in order to preserve ancient culture; it was especially relevant to understanding religious texts with the aid of ancient knowledge. Some works were never recopied, having been judged too dangerous for the monks. Morever, in need of blank media, the monks scraped off manuscripts, thereby destroying ancient works. The transmission of knowledge was centered primarily on sacred texts. prum nerj.

* However, the conservation of books was not exclusively in order to preserve ancient culture; it was especially relevant to understanding religious texts with the aid of ancient knowledge. Some works were never recopied, having been judged too dangerous for the monks. Morever, in need of blank media, the monks scraped off manuscripts, thereby destroying ancient works. The transmission of knowledge was centered primarily on sacred texts. prum nerj.

===Copying and conserving books====

===Copying and conserving books===