Sometimes I think events in the world are like watching a thousand chess games being played all at once. Keeping up with every move on every board is impossible. It's narrowing it all down to the most important games that is the challenge.
-- Carolyne J. Butler

n f 1) book
n m 2) missive, document, writing, book

2a) missive

2a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree

2b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign

2c) book, scroll

2c1) book of prophecies
2c2) genealogical register
2c3) law-book
2c4) book (of poems)
2c5) book (of kings)
2c6) books of the canon, scripture
2c7) record book (of God)

2d) book-learning, writing

2d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know')

-- Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (of 1890)