THE JOURNEY OF BOOK: CLAY TABLET TO E-BOOK

Books are essential in human life. It has a vital role in spreading ideas, information, languages, and knowledge across cultures and civilizations. This article discussed about the history of the book. It has emphasized and deliberated on ancient book creating tasks, innovation, and the modernization of books and book crafting materials, processes, and methods. Besides this text also addresses various forms of technological leaps. This paper has provided some interesting facts and extending descriptions about the transitional phases of transformation of the book; some of them were slow or complex, and sometimes those were swift or sudden, but constantly, the old technologies have gradually overtaken, replaced, or renovated by the latest ones. New technologies survive until the latest one comes because the latest one makes the task easier, impressive, effective, and profitable. On the other hand, sometimes some old technologies also exist for their worthwhileness. This paper tried to explain the evolution and development of books from the ancient to the modern era. This study is historical research based on secondary data. This research comprehends the study of book creation and print culture from antiquity to the present. The paper has investigated the shifts from orality to literacy, from handwriting books to well-printed books, and finally, from ancient clay tablet books to digital books. Keywords: History of book, the transformation of books, publishing technologies, ancient printing process, printed book, digital book.