Editing Scroll (section)

==Rolls==
[[File:Parliamentary archives.jpg|thumb|right|Rolls recording UK [[Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom|Acts of Parliament]] held in the [[Parliamentary Archives]], [[Palace of Westminster]], London]]
Shorter pieces of [[parchment]] or [[paper]] are called ''rolls'' or ''[[Rotulus|rotuli]]'', although usage of the term by modern historians varies with periods. Historians of the classical period tend to use ''roll'' instead of ''scroll''. Rolls may still be many meters or feet long, and were used in the medieval and Early Modern period in Europe and various West Asian cultures for [[manuscript]] administrative documents intended for various uses, including accounting, rent-rolls, legal agreements, and inventories. A distinction that sometimes applies is that the lines of writing in rotuli run across the width of the roll (that is to say, are parallel with any unrolled portion) rather than along the length, divided into page-like sections. Rolls may be wider than most scrolls, up to perhaps 60&nbsp;cm or two feet wide. Rolls were often stored together in a special cupboard on shelves.

A special Chinese form of short book, called the "whirlwind book", consists of several pieces of paper bound at the top with bamboo and then rolled up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://idp.bl.uk/education/bookbinding/bookbinding.a4d|title= Bookbinding|website=IDP Education |access-date=6 January 2007|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110163433/http://idp.bl.uk/education/bookbinding/bookbinding.a4d|url-status=dead |first1=Colin |last1=Chinnery |first2=Li |last2=Yi }}</ref>