1. Words write discuss argue chat talk conversation quarrel greeting
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Words
talk
conversation
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2. From 600 AD European production of books was concentrated in monasteries.

3. 730 AD: The largest known library in Britain, belonging to the Venerable Bede, consists of books.

4. 1440: Johannes Gutenberg invents the first printing press, making mass-production of books possible.
A typical print run is copies.

5. 1861: In its first year of publication, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sells an estimated 60,000 copies.
By 1868 it has sold nearly two million copies.

6. 2005: Worldwide sales of the Harry Potter series of books pass 300,000,000.

7. 1910: 8,468 new books published in the UK.

8. The first email was sent in 1971.
294 billion s were sent in 2010.
The first text message was sent in 1989.
1.5 trillion text messages were sent in 2010, rising to 7 trillion in 2011.

9. 97% of the books published in the history of the world were published in the last hundred years.
If you read a book a day, it would take more than 350,000 years to get through them all.

10. Ecclesiastes 12:12 ‘Of making many books, there is no end…’
(New International Version)