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Literature
How old are books?
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Depending on what you call a "book", books have been around for either 8000 years (dates of the earliest known clay tablets with writing), or 2400 years (date of the oldest known hand-bound codex), or 1150 years (date of the oldest known block-printed book). They've been around for a while.
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The oldest dated print book was written sometime in 868 CE.
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