At what point does a holy book become sacred.......?

First you take cellulose fibres and binder to make paper, nothing sacred so far, then you mix pigment with solvent and binder to make ink, still nothing sacred. Now you place the ink you have just made onto the paper. So you have ink on paper bound up and made into a book. Nothing intrinsically sacred about that. So the notion of it being sacred must originate inside someone's head, right! What's inside the head? The imagination. So who is more likely to imagine that a book is sacred, a scientifically minded person or a silly superstitious pagan?