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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
substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment of time to browse. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense.
In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or portion of a longer composition, a
use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls, and each
scroll had to be identified by the publication it contained. So, for instance, each part of Aristotles
Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is your compositional whole of which
such segments, whether known as chapters or books or components, are parts.
The academic material in a tangible publication does not need to 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. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can feature an abstract
group of lines 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 publications are made with
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a record or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other formats.
Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a professional
academic work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information
science monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial book complete in one volume
(publication ) or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In
Search of Lost Time), in contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper.
Books can also be sold everywhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has
estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been released. In some
wealthier countries, the selling of printed books has decreased because of the increased use of e-
books.
In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts through digital means became an attractive alternative for media
publishers. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-length publication in
digital form. An e-book is usually 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 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 attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print publication by
using this technology, since the screens onto e-book readers are much less reflective.
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