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Well the first books available to the general public were in traveling libraries. The books were not only both large and heavy but were considered so expensive and valuable that they were physically chained to the library shelf they were kept on in the horse drawn wagon that transported the traveling library from town to town. The reader could not carry them around nor remove them from the traveling library, they had to be read at the traveling library.
Now people can have the equivalent of a personal library of many tens of thousands of electronic books in one device they can carry in a pocket, if they so choose. These electronic books are very inexpensive. Even if a person chooses to stay with conventional paper books, they are easy to obtain, easy to carry, and you can own as many as you want.
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How did books evolve?
In very ancient times people kept track of their live-stock using pebbles.(Easier to count then the actual duck or sheep or cattle themselves.) It was easier to keep such pebbles in a bag or a cup for later reference. It has been suggested that one day an unfired clay cup was being used and the person using it found that the pebbles stuck (rather conveniently) to the sides, making sorting easier. From there the cup became a flat slab of clay (easier to get your hands around) and the impression that the pebbles made in the wet clay made a permanent record of the transaction of the day. The pebbles became obsolete as it was found that a stylus could be used to make the impressions just as easily. The first books therefore were ledgers. As hieroglyphics were invented to keep track of the different types of inventory and of the people associated with transactions, stories became possible to record. The Egyptians replace clay with papyrus (much easier to carry around) and of course could be rolled-up. These were the first scrolls. A scroll however has to be rolled out beginning to end and people found that a pile of short scrolls were easier to reference than a single large, long one, so they actually began cutting scrolls up into shorter lengths (shudder) and affixing all pieces to only one post. This was the earliest 'spine' of books. From here I'm sure how you can see further incremental improvements were made. All these stages (except the wet clay cup) have been recorded as being in use as the more advanced portions of the world observed the more primitive portions. There are still today 'rancher' who keep track of their livestock using pebbles.
Are Puritans still around today?
Yes Quakers are still around today, but they exist in a much different way then they did in past times.
Why do roads help us?
Roads help us today by making it easier to transfer materials and supplies from place to place.
Is the civilian conservation corps still around today?
No.
Why was seeing objects in the sky easier for people in ancient cultures than it is for most people today?
There is too much light pollution now days, and also there is too many distractions, as in: a lot of people don't usually look up at the stars every night. We play on the computer, watch TV, etc.
