module#2 (book)

Book is the first media. Many, many years ago a town crier ran through the streets
and shouted out all the news. But now we live in the Atomic
Age. Too many things happen too quickly for us to learn
about them in the old-fashioned way. That is why we have to
read more and more in order to find out what is happening
in the world Reading is rarely a waste of time. Have you ever thought about the kind of books people
used long ago? It is only in the last 500 years that books have
been printed on paper. Before that time the only way of making
books was to write them out by hand. No one knows when
writing first began, but we have found drawings on the walls
of caves and scratchings on bones which are at least 25,000
years old.
In the 11th century the art of papermaking reached Europe 
but no trace of printing was found in Europe until 1423. It 
is known that Johann Gutenberg secretly tried out ways of 
printing in Strasbourg, Germany, in 1440. 
The knowledge of the methods of printing spread so quickly 
over the Continent of Europe that by the year 1487 nearly 
every country had started printing books. 
As for me? In childhood I used to reading all the day. But now I don’t have enough time for that. But sometimes, when I am sitting down in the armchair, and read any interesting book (believe me it is so pleasant) I have a big enjoy.