# books (information)

a product of pages and information

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: words

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [page](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-page.sheet), [information](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-information.knowledge), [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods)

**Through:** pages and information together make a product

**Novel properties:**
- bound pages
- ordered information

## Examples
- The Library of Alexandria housed over 400,000 manuscript scrolls in ancient Egypt. *(institutions)*
- Project Gutenberg digitized the first 10,000 books by 2007, preserving public domain texts. *(computing)*
- The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455, was one of the first major books produced with movable type. *(history)*

## Used by
- [chapter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chapter.section) (L18)
- [journal](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-journal.record) (L18)
- [library](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-library.information) (L18)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-books.information*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-books.information.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*