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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of these great length that it
takes a substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
extensive, investment of time to read. In the restricted sense, a book is a self explanatory section
or portion of a longer article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long functions
needed to be written on several scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified from the book it
contained. Therefore, for instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the
unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of that these segments, whether called
books or chapters or components, are components.

The intellectual content in a physical publication need not be a composition, nor be called a novel.
Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword puzzles or
cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages may be left blank or may feature an abstract group of
outlines as service for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are made with pages
thick and sturdy enough to encourage 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 normal academic parlance that a monograph is known to be a professional academic
work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial book complete in one volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or reader
of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A store where books are bought and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold elsewhere. Books may also be borrowed from
libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been
published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of printed books has diminished because of the
increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts through digital means became an appealing alternative for media
publishers. Thus, the"e-book" was made. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic
book"; it refers to a book-length book in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible
through the world wide web, 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 traditional computer, a smartphone or a
tablet pc; or by means of a portable e-ink display device called 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 publication by using this technology, since the
displays on e-book readers are not as reflective.

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