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I'm sure everyone reading this has a book or two sitting around his room right now, if only a rarely-opened textbook that the bookstore will buy back at a pittance. Opening - let us think about that for a moment. Just by looking at a book, one can see that is meant to be opened.

(See picture 1.)
Three of its sides (the top, bottom, and spine) are covered in a sturdy material, while the other three sides remain uncovered so you can see the pages that the other sides hold together. Looking more closely at the pages, the top, and the bottom, you can see that they are attached to the spine of the book, suggesting that the spine is a sort of pivot point for all of the pages and cover. Holding the book by the spine will make it flop open on its own, and inside there are more clues for how to use the book.

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There are words inside, and as long as you know how to read, this tells you to orient the book so that the words are right-side up. In one corner on each page, there is a number, which indicates what page to turn over next - so that the numbers increase. When you reach the end of the book, all that is left to turn is the cover, which brings the book back to its original box-like shape, suggesting that you might open it again, if you wished.

Books are designed well, and are thus super easy to use, as evidenced by the fact that the children's section of a library always has books on the floor, tables, and chairs, left there by children who can read but do not yet grasp the Dewey Decimal System.

-Diane Panagiotopoulos