π Open Book
An open, hardcover book, depicted with a blue cover on most platforms. Some platforms include a bookmark. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. Apple’s design displays text from its 1997–2002 Think Different ad campaign: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is… Google’s design previously featured a brown cover with a red bookmark, similar to an early design for π Closed Book.
π Open Book
Also known as: Book, Novel
Description
An open, hardcover book, depicted with a blue cover on most platforms. Some platforms include a bookmark. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. Apple’s design displays text from its 1997–2002 Think Different ad campaign: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is… Google’s design previously featured a brown cover with a red bookmark, similar to an early design for π Closed Book.
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Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :open_book: | |
GitHub | :book: | |
GitHub | :open_book: | |
Slack | :book: | |
Slack | :open_book: | |
Discord | :book: |
Additional Information
An open, hard-back book with blue cover. In the Apple artwork for this emoji, the book is open to a page with the following text: Hereβs to http://emojipedia.org/open-book/
- Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- To subject to analysis.
- To consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
- To acquire knowledge on a subject.
- To acquire knowledge or ability.
- Gain knowledge or skills
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- Interpret something that is written or printed
- Something that is read
- Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.
- Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.
- Profound scholarly knowledge
- Profound scholarly knowledge.
- Learning is the acquisition and development of memories and behaviors, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values, and wisdom.
- Acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge
- Accumulated knowledge.
- Knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.
- A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.