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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it takes a
substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment of time to read. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In
the restricted sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, 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. So, for example, each
component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is the
compositional whole of which such sections, whether known as chapters or books or parts, are
components.

The academic material in a tangible book need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel. Books can
consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as crossword puzzles or cut-
out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may feature an abstract set of lines as
support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book, a
notebook, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are created with pages thick and sturdy
enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or picture album. Books may be
distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a specialist
academic work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information
science monograph describes more broadly every non-serial book complete in 1 volume
(publication ) or a finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of
Lost Time), in contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. Books are also
sold everywhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of
2010, roughly 130,000,000 different titles were published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of
published books has diminished due to the increased use of e-books.

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

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