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As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper oriented with one longer side either left or right, depending on the direction in which one reads a scripttied, sewn, or otherwise fixed together and then bound to the flexible spine of a protective cover of heavier.

In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll.As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper oriented with one longer side.