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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. (For Books in the [[Nordan Corpora]], follow this [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Books link].  

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.