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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a
substantial investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so comprehensive,
investment time to read. In the limited sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer
article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on many
scrolls, and every scroll had to be identified from the publication it included. So, for example, each
component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a publication is your
compositional whole of which these segments, whether known as books or chapters or parts, are
parts.

The academic material in a physical book need not be a composition, nor be called a book. 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 can be left blank or may contain an abstract set of
outlines as service for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are made out
of pages thick and sturdy enough to support 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 specialist
academic work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and
information science monograph describes more broadly every non-serial publication complete in
one volume (book) or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In
Search of Lost Time), compared to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An
avid reader or reader of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books can also be sold
everywhere. Google has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were
published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of published books has decreased because of the
increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via digital means became an appealing option for media publishers.
Thus, the"e-book" was created. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it refers
to some book-length book in electronic form. An e-book is generally made accessible through the
internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books may be read either using a
computing device with an LED display like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet
computer; or by way of a mobile e-ink screen device called an e-book reader, such as the Sony
Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or even 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 not as reflective.

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