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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it
requires a substantial 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 restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or portion of a longer
composition, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to be written on
several scrolls, and each scroll had to be identified by the publication it contained. Therefore, for
instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a
book is the compositional whole of that such segments, whether known as chapters or books or
components, are components.

The intellectual content in a physical publication need not be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such matters as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can contain an abstract
group of outlines as service for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made with pages
thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or photograph album.
Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a specialist
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
(book) or a finite number of volumes (a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time),
compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or collector
of novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A store where books are bought and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. 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 had been
published. In some wealthier nations, the sale of printed books has decreased because of the
increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts through electronic means became an attractive alternative for media publishers. The
expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-length book in digital form.
An e-book is generally made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other
forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an LED screen like a
conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by way of a mobile 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 attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print
publication by using this technology, because the screens onto e-book readers are not as
reflective.

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