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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment time to read. In the restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or portion of a
longer article, a use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long functions needed to be written on
many scrolls, and each scroll had 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 which such segments, whether known as books or chapters
or components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a book.
Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such matters as crossword puzzles
or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may contain an abstract set of
outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created out
of pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a record or picture album.
Books could be distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance a monograph is known to be a professional academic work,
rather than a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial book complete in 1 volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A shop where books are
purchased and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold everywhere. Google has
estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been published. In some
wealthier countries, the sale of printed books has diminished because of the increased usage of e-
books.

In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance
to share texts via digital means became an attractive alternative 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 usually made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM and
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 computer; or by means of a mobile e-ink screen
device known as 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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