Students typically store and carry textbooks and schoolbooks for academic work purposes. Elementary school pupils often use workbooks which are published with spaces or blanks to be filled by them for abstraction or homework. In higher education, is it common for a student to take an exam requiring a bluebook.
According to Herodotus (History 5:58), the Phoenicians brought print and papyrus to Greece around the tenth or ninth century BC. The Greek confab for papyrus as scribble material (biblion) and book (biblos) come from the Photo Books Phoenician port town Byblos, through which papyrus was exported to Greece. From Greeks we have also the word tome (Greek: ÃÂÃÂüÿÃÂ) which originally meant a slice or piece and from there it became to denote "a twirl of papyrus". Tomus was absorbed by the Latins with exactly the same meaning as volumen (see also below the explanation by Isidore of Seville).