What is a book?

oh yay

heres some secondary resorces i pulled off the internet.
of quotes of what is a book. after all without research how would
you know where to begin?

"...All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been...is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."Thomas Carlye

"While many viewers may not think of books themselves as works of art, the idea that art books contain works of art is not foreign. To take the next step and experience an artist's book as the sum of its part; binding, text and visual imagery is not that difficult."David Edlefsen

"In a book the artist controls the combinations and ordering of different bits of information."David J. Henry

"Paper will stand anything you write on it."Lenin

"In theory, there are no limits upon the kinds of materials that can be put between covers, or how those materials can be arranged." Richard Kostelanetz

"To understand something, is to understand the structure of which it is a part and/or the elements forming the structure that that something is. Ulises Carrion

"No mode of creation is more direct or naturally arrived at than the accumulation and agglomeration of materials found close at hand." William C. Seitz

"There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty." Thomas Hood

"When you sell a man a book you don't just sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue. You sell him a whole new life." Christopher Morley

So... aparently, a book is a lovely volume.
Made up of written and imaged pages,
fastened along one side and encased between two protective covers.

to me the anatomy of a book is quite odd, i never thought all the
key areas of a chunka material and paper could have such interesting
and unsuspecting labels, not to mention the fact there are actualy
different types of books:

Ring bind
Perfect
stapled... so on so forth

But back to the anatomy. Leaves?
the first and last pages of a book.
who would think that they have a name like that eh?

covers, spines, labels, joints, tails, heads, flaps..... ha ;)

im actualy quite interested in this but at the moment the holidays
have killed my confidence so i need to get back on form this week
law resistance! x