If you are a book lover, you may have a bookshelf in your home with many types of books different. Maybe you only like a certain genre. Or maybe everyone in the family has a particular taste for one book or another. Even in ereaders, ebooks can be classified by genre.
But how many types of books are there? ¿Do you question some time? We do, and that is why today we are going to talk to you about the ones we have found since, depending on the classification they can be more or less. We started!
What is meant by book
A book can be defined, according to UNESCO, as a printed work that must contain at least 49 pages. According to the RAE, Royal Spanish Academy, a book would be:
"Scientific, literary or any other work with sufficient length to form a volume, which may appear in print or on another medium."
Currently, the book, as seen in the RAE, It does not necessarily have to be printed, but the digital format (e-book) as well as the audio format (audiobooks) are accepted.
In a way, all of us at some point in our lives are linked to books. As children, with stories. When we start school, the textbooks that accompany us until we finish the degree, and also those that we read, either forced or for pleasure.
Types of books
If you visit the RAE website and look for the word book, You will not only find the definition that we have given you, but there will be up to 7, of them 6 referring to what we really understand by book, and a seventh of a zoological nature.
However, the truth is that, a little further down, you find a book classification you may never have heard of before. And, according to the RAE, it distinguishes 46 different types of books, among which we highlight:
- Great book. It is the one that the public debt offices carry. They serve to reflect nominative registrations of state income.
- Antiphonal. Also called the antiphonary book, it is a choir work where, as its name suggests, the antiphons of the year are found.
- Calf. It is a document of the churches or communities.
- Record book. It was formerly used as a notebook where merchants wrote down information that they later transcribed into official documents.
- Copier. It is the one that served as a support to record the correspondence of a business.
- Agreements. It contained the resolutions and decisions that were made in town halls, companies, etc.
- Of chivalry. More than a type of book, it is a literary genre where the protagonists are gentlemen.
- Bedside book. It is the one that is kept on the bedside table to read it before going to sleep or that has preference over others (it is the favorite).
- Cash-book. Where traders point the inflows and outflows of money.
- Choir. Made with sheets of parchment, on it are written the psalms, antiphons ... with their musical notes.
- School book. It is the document where the qualifications of a person are collected throughout their educational career.
- Of style. It reflects the norms that are followed in a communication medium.
- Of family. Where all the data of each of the people who are part of a family are collected.
- Honorary. It is a book where the signatures of distinguished visitors are collected. It is mainly found in places such as institutions, museums, etc.
- Of the life. The book of life is related to God's knowledge of the elect, those predisposed for glory.
- Book of forty sheets. This is how the deck of cards is often called.
- Book of the saved. In it, the grants, graces and concessions that were sent or given to the kings were formerly recorded.
- Mass book. In it, the order that is carried out at mass is followed.
- Music book. Characterized by having the necessary musical notes to sing or play.
- Textbooks. They are those that are used in schools, institutes and careers to study.
- Ebook. It refers both to the electronic device that allows reading digital documents and to that digital document that contains a work.
- Green Book. It is a document in which curious or particular news about countries, people or lineages are noted.
What other types of books are there?
Apart from this classification, the truth is that, depending on different criteria, we meet different.
So:
- According to the format, you will have paper, electronic, interactive books (they are digital but the reader interacts with them) and audio (audio books).
- According to the literary genre, you will have: lyrical, epic, dramatic. Some authors broaden this classification much more according to the history of the books: detective, romantic, contemporary, historical, etc.
- Long-read books: where novels and stories are framed because they are narratives with a beginning and an end that assume that the reader is going to spend some time reading it from beginning to end.
- For consultation, Also known as consultation, where we can include dictionaries, encyclopedias, manuals, information books, etc. On the other hand, there would be entertainment books, since their objective is not to give knowledge, but to make you have a good time reading.
- Pocket books, characterized by their small size and short length. In contrast, you would have hardcover books and normal-size books.
- According to the use that is given, you will have textbooks (for study), complementary (for support or research on a certain topic), reference (they are characterized by being quick reference), recreational (where we include stories, comics, comics, etc.), scientific , instructive (user manuals), literary and linguistic books (novels themselves), technical (experts in a specific subject), informative, popular, religious, illustrated, electronic, poetic, biographical, didactic, self-help, artistic, Audio.
As you can see, there are many types of books, and many times the classifications come to confuse them with genres of books. What is clear is that we can find a great variety of them that will evolve over time to adapt to the demand that is asked of them.