Fill in the Blanks AS4_U7_History of booksOnline version Reading the text by Xenia Alexandrovna 1 from hand appear With skins to shopping reduced read onto beautiful rich invented silver years earphones All letters on able could into printing ink by feather In the past people made books . Such books are called handmade books . People used and a pen called a quill which they made from a . People wrote on a material which they made from animal . To draw pictures and make them they also used a lot of gold and . It was a hard work and it took to make one book ! But a technology called changed how people made books . A man , called Johannes Gutenberg , a printing machine . He also made , put ink on them and put them into his machine which pressed the ink paper . His invention the cost of books because it helped to make books quicker . It's an interesting fact but in the past only people had books . With the invention of the printing machine , more people were to buy books and so more people learned ! This is how printed books appeared . the invention of audio technology , people listen to books . People bought them on cassettes and on CDs in shops and listened to them through speakers or . Now , thanks to digital technology , we can read books on an e - reader , a tablet or even a smartphone . We don't need to go for books because we can download them the Internet or buy them the Internet . With digital technology , it's quicker to write a book , too . you need is a mouse , a keyboard and a computer . If you want to create your own book even quicker , you can talk a microphone and see your words on the screen !
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