What types of books are there?

What are the types of books? Let us find out together below.

1. Books are divided by subject into: social science and natural science books.

2. Divided by language into: Chinese books and foreign language books.

3. Divided according to purpose: general books and reference books.

4. Divided by content: novels; children's books; non-fiction; professional books; reference books; manuals; bibliographies; scripts; reports; diaries; book collections; photography and painting collections.

5. Classification by characteristics: thread-bound books; hardcover books; paperback books; pocket books; e-books; audio books; books for the blind; books in ethnic languages.

The origin of books

Books can be traced back to the inscriptions on stone, wood, pottery, bronze, palm leaves, bones, birch bark and other objects. The use of papyrus for writing played a huge role in the development of books. Around the 30th century BC, the appearance of Egyptian papyrus scrolls was the earliest prototype of Egyptian books. Papyrus scrolls are closer to the modern concept of a book than the tablets of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites. The earliest book discovered so far is a book made of papyrus by the ancient Egyptians 5,000 years ago. By the 1st century AD, Greece and Rome were using animal skins to record national laws, history and other important content. They were an important form of ancient books like the oracle bones of China's Shang Dynasty. Before the invention of printing, copying of books was done by hand, and the cost and labor were quite high. During the Middle Ages, only a few churches, universities, nobility, and governments had the use of books. It was not until the invention of Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century that books became affordable items for ordinary people and were thus widely disseminated. In the 1990s, with the popularization of the Internet, books have broken away from the limitations of paper. E-books have become the development trend of future books due to their advantages such as small space, easy dissemination, and easy storage. People can understand the social conditions of slaves in China more than 3,000 years ago, know about the contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago, and read beautiful Han fu, Tang poems, Song lyrics, and Yuan songs? All of these rely on ancient books.

The above is what the editor shared today, I hope it can help everyone.