Category: books...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. (HD Thoreau)
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of life. (J.L. Bennett)
the great adventure of writing a book
the Sumerians' writing on clay tablets before 3000 BC, the Chinese making books from bamboo strips around 1300 BC, and the Gutenberg type setting c1440 AD
books bound in leather with gilt gold edges
the secondhand bookstands along the banks of the Seine in Paris
reading books about subjects unknown to you
A home without books is like a house without windows. (HW Beecher)
sharing your love of books
a kid with an appetite for books
donating books to those who will benefit and enjoy them
books that change the way you think, let you time travel
crossword puzzle books donated to hospitals
ISBN numbers (1960s) were 10 digits but is about to run out of numbers, so as of January 2007, each new book will have a 13-digit ISBN number.
The oldest extant printed book is the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist text, dated to 868 AD.