I bet you thot I was dead. Sory I’ve been gon so long.i was
travling an lerning about the world. But im back now.
Todays reveiw is about boks. Sit tight.
Books huh? You just never know wat culd be inside there. Maybe
it a love story. Maybe its war. Maybe its science fricton.you dont know. Maybe its
a story about a ghost. Maybe its a book about the history of books. Fancy that!
Mybe its just a book filed with pictures. Those are good too
They say you can tell alot abot a book by its cover. Which makes
sense. That is wat the cover isfor. Your not trying to trick the reader into
thinking youve got a book on hamsters and then theres a ghost in there. No one
wants that. You can also tell alot about a book by the numbr of pages its got. If
there are a lot of pages you know its a long book. If there arent many pages
you might be done befor tea.
So where did books come from you ask? Well books were
invented not discovered. People got tired of having all these bloody great
pilles papr lying abot so they put it all together into what became the books
we know today. Before we can get down to the nitygrity of where books came from
we have to talk about paper.
looks a bit rubbish but it worked |
It all sort of started wiith the Egyptians and their papyris.
which was basically these papyrus plants all knoted together. These chaps came
pretty close to inventing the paper that you and I know today. Maybe if they
invested a bit more money in the research and development they would’ve done
better.
At first the Egyptians used thiss paypris to make things
like shopping lists and paper aireplanes but eventually someone was forced to
write down the histry of Egyptian royalty. This was quite a long story it had
to be said, lots of people dying, some plagues and even a mummy or two. The E
gyptians
used pictures called hihoglfix to tell their stories. And, of course, when
books are written all in pictures they’re incredibly esy to read. So once papyrus
was on the scene we were pretty close to having the books we know today
After paypris we moved onto parchmet which is basically the
father of today’s paper. Entire books existed now, all written out by hand. These
early books were even some of the first to be primitivly bound. Books were
still very rare at this point as to were the people who culd read them.not much
reding or riting going on in these dark times. After books wer invented, librarees
also started to sprot up in the wild. They didn’t have too many books but hey
what can you do it’s early days. Because the rule wasnt inventd back then you
could be as lowd as you wantd in these librarees. Ah the good old days!
an really old book - look at the size of it!! |
It was a big ballache to make proper books in the past. And the
proces often tooke days ifnot weekes. Many people were involvd thruout the
entire ordeel. For this raisin, when the books were finishd they were very
expensive. First someone wuld have to get the idea for the bok. Then they would
rite it all down. This alone took a long time. After this the parchment wuld be
sent to the editor to chek for mistakes. If the editor gives the go ahead the
booke can then go onto the publicist. Back then books were ritten in handwriting
becase tpying and the keybord hadnt been inveted yet. Once moving type and the
printing press was invented, handriting went out the window.
Nowadays manual books are made by robots. They do all the
printing and bookbinding. Ther are conveyr belts. You also get Electeronic Books
whcih aren’t printd and can insted be red on
a varyty of devices. Look at this forinstance, its not a book but your
reading it withot paper. You even get audiobooks which is basically a book but
read out like a bedtime story. Technology huh? Where will it get us next hopefully
mars
Ow. books hav feelings to |
In some cuntries certain bookes arent allways allowd. Perhaps
the book is to rawnchy or provocative. Perhaps the book doesnt fit nicely with some
of the books youve alredy got. Perhaps the book might raise interesting qwestions.
Whatever the problem maybe, books are sometimes banned from being used in
certin places. If banning them isn’t good enough thn you can even have a
bookburning. Poor books! What did they ever do to you?
If you are after a book they can uselly be found in
libraries which are their natural habitat. Haggling with the librarian will alow
you to take them home with you ocassionaly. But treat them with repsect! with
so many books to read you might feel a bit dawntd but you shuldnt be afrade of
them. there are about 130 000 000 different books that hav been prublished, soo
get cracking
thats pretty much all ive got to say about books for now. if theres any changes i'll update this reveiw accordianly. in terms of everything there is i'm going to have to give books an 8/10. just think where wed be withot books - exacly