who was the first person to read a book?

Answer 1

Gee............. It must be the person that wrote the book, don't you think?

Answer 2

It was the first person who wrote a book.

Answer 3

Of course the snappy answer would be: "the first person who wrote one" (duh!). It SOUNDS like you're asking when, in human history, did books originate.

Acording to an article in Wikipedia, there is some debate as to what can be considered "writing", vs. just documenting things like, number of barrels of barley sold, etc. (1)

Writing SYMBOLS has been been found in China as far back as 6000 BC (see above), but they are not sure it can be called writing. According to this article, the oldest known alphabet developed in Egypt around 2000 BC and spread over 500 yrs., to the much of the known world.

In the same article, it states: "Phoenician writing system and descendants

The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto-Caananite script in around the 11th century BC, which in turn borrowed ideas from Egyptian hieroglyphics. This writing system was an abjad — that is, a writing system in which only consonants are represented. This script was adapted by the Greeks, who adapted certain consonantal signs to represent their vowels. This alphabet in turn was adapted by various peoples to write their own language, resulting in the Etruscan alphabet, and its own descendants, such as the Latin alphabet and Runes. Other descendants from the Greek alphabet include the Cyrillic alphabet, used to write Russian, among others. The Phoenician system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic are descended."

This, to my mind, would indicate the existence of SOME type of book, which is a collection of writing.

As for the first books in human history, please look at the second link below, for information on collections of writings ("books"), from their origins, through clay tablets, papyrus, scrools right up to modern books. I plan to read it myself! Looks like it might be what you were asking for?

Answer 4

I'll go with the first person to write one.

Answer 5

The one who 1st wrote one.

Answer 6

Jesus....