What is a Book?

To me a book essentially is a published piece of work that are made to be read. Mostly being a number of bound paper. 

This year santa bought me a book. so when i hear/see the word book i think of that! 

It was Russell Brands, articles of faith. 

which is a compilation of his column articles from the Guardian.

 

'Citin!

If you want to buy a book, why not look at this website.

www.amazon.co.uk

what is a book? hmmmm well how far can you take this, a stapled stack of paper, is that a book? there's justification for it as it is a load of bound paper what if it was unusual objects bound together? stones, cd case ruler??? thats mental but it could be forged into a book!

With my subject area being snowboarding, i thought it would be rather ruddy interesting to look at ski maps. Its main advantage in a way is that it's pocket sized but folds out to rather a large single piece of paper that is duplex printed. This is a form of book that im going to experiment with producing, i need a big piece of paper, and a blade! 

the only problems i see with this is the actual printing on a large piece of paper, print room..money? 

 It came to mind that with ski maps i've often found that they get ripped easily as they are prone to getting wet. so what about making something that is pocket sized like a piste map for someone to carry with them on the mountain, however making it water resistant by say laminating the pages and then to make them into a swatch style bound to help whilst handling and reading the book.