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572 points bookofjoe | 4 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.992s | source
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TZubiri ◴[17 Oct 24 00:21 UTC] No.41865229[source]▶
We had books, but then we thought, what about screens. Then we had screens but we thought, what if screens were more like books. Then we had book screens and we thought, what if the screens we made to look like books were more like screens.
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Funes- ◴[17 Oct 24 01:02 UTC] No.41865436[source]▶
I get the joke, but color has been present in books (manuscripts, before the invention of the printing press, even) basically since their inception, many centuries ago, so just adding color wouldn't make these devices more similar to screens as much as it would make them more akin to... well, books. Just look at these marvels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript.
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1. thaumasiotes ◴[17 Oct 24 06:06 UTC] No.41866852[source]▶
Here's a book a little closer in time to the invention of books: https://cdn.britannica.com/25/83825-050-F8826674/Anubis-Egyp...
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2. TZubiri ◴[17 Oct 24 13:20 UTC] No.41869420[source]▶
100% not a book as it's not movable.

Might be a scroll or a codex, but it might even be on a wall.

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3. thaumasiotes ◴[17 Oct 24 17:50 UTC] No.41871892[source]▶
It's a bunch of sheets of paper, or more likely part of a scroll. You can see the grain clearly in the image.

> it's not movable

I don't know what to say here. This is obviously false. Why did you say this?

What do you think is the difference between a "book" and a "codex"? Why do you think ancient texts are divided into "books"?

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4. TZubiri ◴[17 Oct 24 18:23 UTC] No.41872247{3}[source]▶
Oh my bad, definitely movable then, thought it was a wall.

According to wikipedia:

"The codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/)[1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term "codex" is now reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum, parchment, or papyrus, rather than paper.[2] "

I would say a codex is a book yes, you are right there. The defining characteristic for me is the binding method, the flippable pages and the bookiness factor of the book.

That said, unbound scrolls that are scrolled into scrolls of scroll are definitely scrolls and not books.

So 2 to 1, gg.