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            Benefits of Reading




            As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it requires a
            considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
            investment of time to read. In the limited sense, a book is a self explanatory section or part 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 book it contained. So, for
            instance, each part of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a
            book is the compositional whole of that these sections, whether called books or chapters or parts,
            are parts.

            The academic material in a physical book does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
            Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as crossword
            puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can feature an abstract
            group 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 out of
            pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a scrapbook or picture album.
            Books could be distributed in electronic form as e-books and 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 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),
            compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or reader of
            books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books are also sold elsewhere. Books may also
            be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000
            different titles were released. In some wealthier countries, the selling of printed books has
            decreased due to the increased use of e-books.


            In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the
            opportunity to share texts via digital means became an appealing option for media publishers.
            Hence, the"e-book" was made. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a
            book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible through the
            internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books may be read either via 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 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 book by employing this technology, because the displays on e-book readers are
            much less reflective.
















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