Answer:
Its title means book.
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
I am black when I am clean and white when I am dirty?
I'm tall in the morning and short in the noon. I disappear at night but I will be back soon.
What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.