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100% not a book as it's not movable. Might be a scroll or a codex, but it might even be on a wall.

• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  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"?
  • TZubiri 2y ago
    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.