One of the passions I have. Books. Will try to share some good reads and may be some reviews of releases too :)
A very brief history about books and how they evolved. This text is a cut paste of here and there but a good compilation :)
The word book comes from Old English "bōc" which comes from Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech.Similarly, in Slavic languages (e.g. Russian and Bulg arian (bukva — letter) is cognate to "beech". It is thus conjectured that the earliest Indo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood.
The kind of books I read are non-fiction, history or biography.
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