A book is a work that records all kinds of knowledge on certain materials with symbols such as words and pictures, clearly expresses ideas, and makes a book. They are important tools for spreading all kinds of knowledge and ideas and accumulating human culture. With the development of history, its writing style, materials used, binding forms and forms are constantly changing and changing.

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The history of books is closely related to the development of writing, language, literature, art, technology and science. It can be traced back to the inscriptions on stones, wood, pottery, bronzes, palm leaves, bones, birch bark and so on. The use of papyrus greatly promoted the development of books.

Around the 30th century BC, Egyptian papyrus scrolls appeared, which was the earliest embryonic form of Egyptian books. The papyrus scroll is closer to the concept of modern books than the clay tablets of Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Hittite.