Many ancient books had neither word divisions nor chapter divisions. In ancient Greek texts, some manuscripts began to add summaries and make them into tables of contents with numbers, but the titles did not appear in the … See more

In works of fiction, authors sometimes number their chapters eccentrically, often as a metafictional statement. For example: See more

• Nicholas Dames: The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton University Press 2023. See more

Many novels of great length have chapters. Non-fiction books, especially those used for reference, almost always have chapters for ease of navigation. In these works, … See more

In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus or parchment scrolls, which contained about the same amount of text as a typical … See more

• Asterism (typography)
• Chapter book
• Chapters and verses of the Bible
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