I wrote:
> Especially if you are talking about a printed book anyone can print one now > with a date from five years ago. That is roughly when Print On Demand printing began. It is easy to identify a perfect-bound Print On Demand book but I doubt anyone can say exactly how old it is. You could print a book dated 1865 but it would not look convincing. Or you could print a fake Kenyan newspaper from 1961 with a birth announcement for Obama . . . but let's not go there. - Jed
