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Books are survivors. Some thought books would go by the wayside when television was invented, but millions are still being sold. Even the computer age has not stopped the printing presses. Reading may consume fewer hours today, but reading is still the key to anyone's future, and books are the highway to education. A child who can read will have an advantage in school and in life.

Shopping for books online is interesting. You can even find out of print books, rare books, and used books at auction websites, and online bookstores. Books fit into shopping & E-commerce neatly, as a main feature or an add on to other products. Use a web directory to find the type of bookseller you want, as there are millions of listings on the Internet.

The computer era has invented a new type of book, the e-book. This electronic version of a book is easy to transmit, store, and use on the computer. There are online libraries of books you can access 24/7, and free e-books to order. Regular books are published in different formats, such as hardbound, softcover, and some are updated by sections, such as some law publications. Expensive specialty books may be bound in leather or fancy fabrics. Sizes range from mini-books, booklets, and paperback book size (small) to coffee table size large volumes, and thin to thick in bulk. Ancient books were written on scrolls and stone tablets.

There is a saying, "don`t judge a book by its covers", which means that even if a book looks old and its covers are torn, it can still hide a treasure among its pages. There are millions of books all over the world who fit perfectly the desires of even the most demanding reader, all you need to do is to have the patience required for searching for the book that you like the most. Adventure, comic books, murder or romance are only a few of the book types that people prefer the most. As said, the e-book has been developed and it has several advantages over the classical, printed book. Firstly, you can easily "turn the pages" by scrolling up or down and look at the page number. Secondly, you can find the chapter that you are looking for by typing a keyword in the search box that most of the e-books provide. The only disadvantage would be that reading a book online is very tiresome for the eyes.

It all began with written books centuries ago. After printing presses began to manufacture more and more books, they were eventually recorded on vinyl or CDs for the busy parents that don`t have time to read stories to their children and prefer to push "play", so a calm and pleasant voice reads the book instead of them. Nowadays we have the e-books, which can easily be transported using a memory stick, so the reader can download them in the laptop and read them whenever he feels like: in the train, while he is waiting for the bus to come or simply when he doesn't have anything important to do at work.

There are different types of books, including booklets, comic books, diaries, religious books, scrapbooks, albums, blank books, log books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, novels, fiction books, non-fiction books, picture books, pop-up children books, coloring books, recipe books, workbooks, manuals, textbooks, ledgers, appointment books, almanacs, atlas books, directories, and more. Books have generated a large industry of sellers, bookbinders, distributors, and creative producers.