How many kinds of books are there?

What kinds of books are there? Let's take a look together.

1. Books are divided into social science books and natural science books according to disciplines.

2. According to the language, it is divided into Chinese documents and foreign documents.

3. According to the purpose, it is divided into ordinary books and reference books.

4. According to the content: novels; Children's books; Non-fiction; Professional books; Reference books; Manual; Bibliography; Script; Report; Diary; Book collection; A collection of photos and paintings.

5. According to characteristics: thread-bound books; Hardcover book; Paperback book; Bagged books; Electronic book; Audio book; Books for the blind; National language books.

The origin of books

Books 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. The earliest book found so far is a book made of papyrus by ancient Egyptians 5000 years ago. By 1 century, Greece and Rome used animal skins to record national laws, history and other important contents, which was as important an ancient book form as China and Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Before the invention of printing, books were copied by hand, and the cost and labor were quite high. In the Middle Ages, only a few churches, universities, nobles and governments used books. It was not until Gutenberg invented printing in the15th century that books became affordable for ordinary people and were widely spread. In the 1990s, with the popularity of the Internet, books got rid of the restriction of paper, and e-books became the development trend of books in the future because of their small space, easy dissemination and easy preservation. People can understand the slave society in China more than 3,000 years ago, know the situation of a hundred schools of thought contending in the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago, and read beautiful Han Fu, Tang Poetry, Song Ci and Yuan Qu? All this depends on ancient books.

The above is what Bian Xiao shared today, and I hope it will help everyone.