The History and Development of a Book.

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one .” George R.R. Martin, а writer

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The object of my work is a book. The subject is the history and development of a book. The aims are to study the history and development of a book, to discover the attitude to digital books of the teenagers and adults .

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The tasks: - to find out the information about books from antiquity to the present day; - to analyze the information and to make conclusions. to make a survey to make a presentation

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The earliest books In Greece and Rome the tablets were covered with wax. Writing on the wax surface was performed with a pointed instrument, a stylus.

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In Assyria and Babylonia people wrote on the clay tablets with a piece of wood. Then they baked them and kept on the shelves.

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In Ancient Egypt, papyrus was used for writing. Papyrus books were in the form of a scroll for a total length of up to 10 meters or even more. Some books were over 40 meters long.

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By the time of the Middle Ages books were handwritten and often beautifully decorated.

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Then Johann Gutenberg from Germany invented first printing (15 century).

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At the first half of XIX century Charles Babbage designed a mechanical computing machine called the "analytical engine." It is considered the forerunner of the digital computer. The desktop personal computers (1960s)

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In 1971 Michael Hart invented a digital book. On July 4, 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network . Hart founded Project Gutenberg - one of earliest digital libraries of free e-books.

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In the 1990s electronic books began developing very quickly and e-book readers were invented.

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An e-book is downloaded to a computer, PC, Mac, laptop, smartphone or any other kind of reading device, and is read on the screen.

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( teenagers)

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Reading e - books

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(adults)

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http://www.successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_tablet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_book s http://www.gutenberg.org / T he sites with free e-books libraries: http://lib.aldebaran.ru/ http://www.fb2book.com/ http://lib.ru