Three shelves of a library, showing books arranged by color of the spine. The top shelf is red books, the middle shelf is orange to green, the bottom shelf is dark green.

Samantha Walters

Author/Writer

As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper oriented with one longer side either left or right, depending on the direction in which one reads a scripttied, sewn, or otherwise fixed together and then bound to the flexible spine of a protective cover of heavier.

In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll.As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper oriented with one longer side.