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rovr138yesterday at 5:01 PM1 replyview on HN

If you think a book is made by the physical medium, you must think everything in paper is a book. The prose in a book has certain content structure, intent, and writing.

So unless a napkin and a receipt are books, what actually makes something a book is its content structure, intent, and writing. Not the paper it's printed on.


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inigyoutoday at 3:20 AM

Number of pages is relevant. If it has five, it's only a booklet.