'Books' in the Bible

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.

In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.