# The evolution of the book

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Julie Dreyfuss
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/julie_dreyfuss_the_evolution_of_the_book)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages? To answer these questions, Julie Dreyfuss goes back to the start of the book as we know it to show how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts. \[Directed by Patrick Smith, narrated by Susan Zimmerman\].

## Lectures

1. [The evolution of the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/julie_dreyfuss_the_evolution_of_the_book/b7d35dba34ed), 5 min (TED's player)