What is a book?

What is a book?         

To fully understand what a book is, you need to understand what a book is composed of. I believe a book is composed of thoughts translated on to paper. The content of the book isn’t a large indication of what makes it a book. What makes a book a book, is the literal collection of thoughts collected on pages, and bonded into one bundle. I think there is a physical element to books. I wouldn’t classify anything a book unless it was like any other book. I think this way because there’s already a developed culture for books.

 Books are made to sit on book shelves to display their titles for the convenience of a potential consumer to quickly see either a known author or recognized title. For that purpose I think books are universally recognized to look a certain way. You may be able to read the same content in a book somewhere else, but without the literal flipping of pages, reading a book online can look the same as reading anything else.