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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a composition of these great length that it
takes a considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment time to browse. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In
the limited sense, a book is a self explanatory section or portion of a longer article, a usage that
reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to be written on several scrolls, and
every scroll had to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for example, each component of
Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a publication is the
compositional whole of which these segments, whether known as chapters or books or parts, are
components.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can feature an abstract
set of outlines as service for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical objects, like a record or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is known to be a professional academic
work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial book complete in one volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. Books are also sold
elsewhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of
published books has decreased due to the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via electronic means became an appealing option for media publishers. The term e-
book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to some book-length publication in digital form. An
e-book is generally made accessible through the internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other
forms. E-Books might be read either via a computing device with an LED display like a traditional
computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a mobile e-ink display device called an e-
book reader, like the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle.
E-book readers attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print book by using this technology,
since the screens onto e-book readers are not as reflective.

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