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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it requires a
considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment time to read. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In the
limited sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer article, a usage that reflects the
fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls, and each scroll needed to be
identified by the publication it contained. Therefore, for instance, each component of Aristotles
Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of
that these sections, whether called chapters or books or parts, are components.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
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 may be left blank or may feature an abstract set of
outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a record or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance a monograph is understood to be a specialist academic
work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in 1 volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or reader of
books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are purchased and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. Novels can also be sold elsewhere. Books can also be borrowed from
libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles had been
published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of printed books has decreased due to the
increased usage of e-books.

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

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