The state or quality of being a book; the essential nature or characteristics of books.
From book + -hood (condition or state), following patterns like childhood, manhood, sainthood.
Bookhood is under philosophical debate now—does a PDF have bookhood? Does an audiobook? The question matters for how libraries, archivists, and publishers decide what to preserve.
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