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That's not true. In common conversation, "book" refers to the text as well as a given volume. You don't say "hey give me that volume of the text of Hamlet over there", you say "hey give me that book over there".
"Book", much like "length", is an overloaded word in the English language. That's why it's not accurate to pick on one particular definition and insist that it's the objectively correct one, the way Folamh did.
Alice: "Can you pass the water?"
Bob: "Sure" Splash
Alice: "WTF?"
Bob: "If you wanted the water and the pitcher, you should have asked for them both."
I didn't read that from his comments at all. Maybe it was edited out or I missed it downthread.
Amazon lists the length of their books right next to width and height. Did I miss an argument that shipping dimensions should be removed because they aren't "true" length? Was there an argument about film-based movies being measured in "meters" (dependent on frame rate, film size, and runtime)?
From my reading, he wanted an additional piece of information that isn't commonly available, provides some useful information, and has the advantage of being almost entirely invariant through common and irrelevant changes (e.g. new editions of books).
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