Week 1 Introduction to Books

I really enjoyed the first class for this subject. Not only does it seem like an enjoyable class, I think that I will feel challenged by it. Can’t wait to see what next week has in store for us. This week we went over the general areas that needed to be covered in the introductory class, but also we had a look at a very interesting, yet simple question “What is a Book?” We were asked to define it in class and I didn’t struggle with this at all.

“A Book is a compilation of words and/or images that are used to educate or entertain. Usually a book is, but not necessarily constrained to a series of paper pages bound together to form some sort of sequences of events or imagery”

The debate that we had on the definition of a book was quite invigorating and it was interesting to learn about everyone else’s opinions on the topic. I also discovered that my definition did not cover the entirety of what a book actually is. I learnt that almost anything can be a book if it has the form and/or function of a book, it was very interesting to learn.