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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a makeup of these great length that it
requires a considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so
extensive, investment of time to browse. This sense of publication has a restricted and an
unrestricted sense. In the restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient 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 each scroll needed to be identified by the publication it included. Therefore, for
instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book
is the compositional whole of which these segments, whether known as books or chapters or
components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible book does not need to be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or may feature an abstract
set of lines as service 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 made with
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 along with other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance a monograph is understood to be a professional academic
work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph describes 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 serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or
collector of novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Novels can also be sold elsewhere.
Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles were published. In
some wealthier nations, the sale of printed books has decreased because of the increased usage
of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via digital means became an appealing alternative for media publishers.
The term e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it refers to a book-length publication in
electronic 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 using a computing device with an LED screen such as 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 the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers try to mimic the experience of reading a print book
by employing this technology, since the displays on e-book readers are much less reflective.

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