As seen in our first special collection workshop, it can be challenging to categorize what a book is. A few people in class even expressed that they feel they have a too literal definition of the book, and it stops them from accepting that books come in many forms. This phenomenon stems from our learned behaviors and what we grew up seeing. We all know what a book looks like and how we use it, but reading Amaranth Borsuk’s book, The Book, is changing all of our learned notions of what a book is and how we read it. For instance, “Our own codex book has been normalized to such a degree that we question the ‘bookness’ of anything that challenges our expected reading experience, with little regard for the fact that reading in one direction rather than another, scanning text silently, and putting a title and an author’s name on a book cover are all learned behaviors (Borsuk, 18).” This quote describes that we have been taught to think that our reading behaviors are the right and only way to read, which is not true. Borsuk gives us a well-needed history lesson on the fact that reading used to be a social activity where people would read challenging works together, out loud, to create discussion. Whereas in today’s world, reading is more often than not a solo endeavor, where a singular person seeks knowledge, not a group. Just like how reading used to be a group activity, it used to come in all shapes in sizes, like the tablet, the papyrus scroll, and then the book we all know today. At the end of the day, Bosuk argues that there was an evolution that brought us the book as we know it today, thus arguing that all these forms can be considered books.