Book Measure

Books or the writing inside them, have dimension and I don't mean inches or centimeters (something I cannot visualize out of my history). Stories in books, therefore, fiction, can be wide or narrow, vertical or horizontal, shallow or deep and a whole list of other features to do with measurements of various kinds. I am reading a book on my device that is easy to pick up in the middle of the  night when I hear a strange bump on the sun deck and can't get back to sleep. I did get up but there was nothing on my deck but the echo of the bump in my head and the wondering of it and what it could be. I am imaginging it to be an owl that likes the few Cheerios I leave out there. I imagine it's a big barn owl who comes there nightly to rest and watch for the rats it might catch under my condo deck. Our condo council seems obsessed with rats and seagulls as enemies. Both creatures have a lot to do with cleaning up our human garbage in spite of their "nuisance" factors but that's just my thinking. Books such as the one I am reading currently have depth in language style. They way this author puts together words thus images, to describe a wagon train across the prairies and those making the journey to the north, is gaspingly unique. A woman leaves the wagon train in the midst of dangers all around, to look at the moon away from the camp fire. A fist fight ensues in one part where the rules of the duel are applied. I had never heard of such rules in hand to hand boxing. An aborigne wagoneer guide fights the cross prejudices of his tribe and the surly white men on the journey. A horse has an infection in its hoof and the cure needs to be immediate and natural - he is the "engine" of the wagon taking its owners to a new home in a harsh land. It's all they have. Narrow and broad also describe books in how far the author is willing to expand the background senses it arouses. Yes, books are more than ink.