Book early

You know how Wikipedia can be updated just like that because of its multiple contributors, well they've sideswiped two or three of my posts by now putting the Napoleon Hill classic in tenth spot. It wasn't there before, not by a long chalk. Biggest non-fiction, yes.

Let's move on. It's a lesson in the mutability of online text.

It appears there's this whopping big oral tradition before bound parchment and that's what all those epics were about, along with the free borrowing from earlier tales. The earliest extant books make for a fascinating read.
There were quite the ramifications when they discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls