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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a composition of these great length that it requires
a considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
comprehensive, investment time to browse. In the restricted sense, a publication is a self
explanatory section or part of a longer composition, a use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity,
long functions had to be written on many scrolls, and every scroll needed to be identified by the
book it included. So, for instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the
unrestricted sense, a publication is the compositional whole of which such segments, whether
known as chapters or books or parts, are parts.

The academic material in a tangible publication does not need to be a composition, nor even be
called a novel. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as
crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can contain
an abstract set of lines as support for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book,
an autograph book, a laptop, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are made with pages
thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical objects, like a scrapbook or picture album.
Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is known to be a specialist academic work,
instead of a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial publication complete in one volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or reader
of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books can also be sold everywhere. Books can
also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000
different titles were published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of published books has
diminished because of the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts through electronic means became an attractive alternative for media
publishers. The term e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some book-length
publication in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible through the world wide web,
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 portable e-ink display device known as an e-book reader, such as 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 publication by employing this technology, since the screens
onto e-book readers are not as reflective.

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