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Show PAPYRUS BOOKS WERE ROLLS Modern Term "Volume" Has Been " Found to Have Had Its Ori5 n in ' These Cylindrical Works. 1 la forming papyres into bo,.;-, : was customary among the anci-s t0 ; use a long hbeet or web of it, tJi r, It ur-,n a flick, as Is the c.-:oai i r- ' FI.e-t to tijtj.s at the r.r-2t dsy t,-, ' the I'.-tr..it News. The writ j.ats '"a '"" coluiiitiii, each of wiin-li forced a t - of pag.-, the reader holdii.g t; e tr ;fji t the roil la his two hands and rriiij the .art which srttg oi-n beta; them. As he advanced Le cos-;- 1 Ln.-ollei t.n one tide aLd rolie-J ' the other. " T-e term -vrJume." c&ed In re;.- : to rio-d-m Im-.Vs. htd its r.rfgia ia'ii ara-b nt pm.-tlc-e ,f writli; C;'-a ' .-r : Tl.e b.-g ,;.. WiS r,, .. c'.; - a w.--d. n HiieU which gjve the 1 a frta!a n:.:.es tr.d n.-ll-i.-.r, u for led 1; great j rctectb-a. " ' - Tl.e er.es of the n-lVr ;-rv 't-t-J b. ' vocd the e-!-es of the fhet aaj i-I-, ' It-m.ina'ed In kr..-bs or bc.v-s. v.j gnari!-.J !ri s-.-iiie n.etisure the e;'-es c-f the parens or rolls cf ;-srciri !.i. h ere f ften c.ide la tie ti Ii.anrer. The whole v.-".:- wts t;, .c-b-s.i in a furch:..-; cise. Ca :va out. le tf whi b the title of the :n was Ce:.;b-u. :y re-r-jed. |