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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment time to browse. 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 had to be written on
many scrolls, and every scroll had to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for instance,
each part of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a publication is
the compositional whole of which such sections, whether called chapters or books or parts, are
parts.

The academic material in a physical book does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
Novels can consist only 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 may feature an abstract group of
lines as support for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph
book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are created out of pages thick and
sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a record or picture album. Books may be
distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a professional
academic work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information
science monograph describes more broadly every non-serial book 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 shop where books are
purchased and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold elsewhere. Books can also
be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000
different titles had been released. In some wealthier countries, the selling 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 appealing option for media publishers. The expression
e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some book-length publication 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 via a computing device with an LED display such as a
conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a portable 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, because the screens onto e-book readers are not as reflective.