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I take umbrage with calling these technical manuals / instructional texts "books" due to the conflagration of the commonality of the term. Stephen King writes b
by 6stringmerc 8y ago
I take umbrage with calling these technical manuals / instructional texts "books" due to the conflagration of the commonality of the term. Stephen King writes books. There's no shame in calling a piece of text by its correct name.
- travbrack 8y agoWhat about college textbooks? In your mind, is long form narrative writing a requirement for something to be called a book?
- munificent 8y agoWhere did you acquire the idea that "book" only refers to long-form fiction? Every dictionary I just consulted considers the primary definition to be the physical artifact: pages bound together. Some have secondary definitions that refer to any long written work. I found none that excluded non-fiction texts from it. Are you claiming that phone books are not books? Recipe books are not books? Have you ever once heard a human say, "Look up their number in the phone text?"