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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of such great length that it
takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
comprehensive, investment of time to read. This sense of publication has a restricted and an
unrestricted sense. In the limited sense, a book is a self explanatory section or portion of a longer
article, a usage that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on
several scrolls, and each scroll had to be identified by the book it included. So, for example, each
part of Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is your
compositional whole of which such sections, whether known as chapters or books or parts, are
components.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication does not need to be a composition, nor even be
called a book. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as
crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can contain
an abstract group of outlines as support for continuing entrances, e.g., an account book, an
appointment book, an autograph book, a notebook, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some physical
books are created out of pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a
record or photograph album. Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with 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 subject, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly every non-serial book complete in one 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
bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold everywhere. Books may 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 sale of printed books has decreased
due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance
to share texts through electronic means became an appealing option for media publishers. Hence,
the"e-book" was created. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to
a book-length book in digital form. An e-book is generally 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 such as a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by means of
a portable e-ink screen device called an e-book reader, like the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble
Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers try to mimic the experience of reading
a print publication by using this technology, since the displays on e-book readers are not as
reflective.

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