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Leaves of palm or mallow led up to the first forms of papyrus used hence, perhaps, the word leaf of a book. Bark was next pressed into the service of literature and, it has often been suggested, possibly gave rise to the word book, although it seems more likely that book was of runic origin and derived from the beech-staves Buch-staben, on which the runes were expressed.
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