page_title: Book
section_title: By content
hierarchical_section_title: Book / Types / By content
caption_attribution_description: English: Shelves in a bookstore (Empik, Katowice), containing only new releases of w:science fiction and fantasy in Poland (approximately from first half of 2006). Letters P-Z. Virtually none of these books have been translated into English. books.
context_page_description: A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex. In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page.
  As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so extensive, investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's Physics is called a book. In an unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which such sections, whether called books or chapters or parts, are parts.
  The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a composition, nor even be called a book.
context_section_description: A common separation by content are fiction and non-fiction books. This simple separation can be found in most collections, libraries, and bookstores.
caption: Novels in a bookstore
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