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Benefits 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 write and a still significant, though not so extensive, investment
time to browse. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In the limited
sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the
simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls, and each scroll
needed to be identified by the publication it included. Therefore, for instance, each part of Aristotles
Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which
these sections, whether called books or chapters or parts, are components.

The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a composition, nor even be called a novel.
Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may contain an abstract
group of lines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are made with
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a scrapbook or picture album.
Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is known to be a specialist academic work,
rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial book 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 serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or
reader of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are purchased and
sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold everywhere. Google has estimated that as of
2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were published. In some wealthier nations, the sale of
published books has decreased because of the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
chance to share texts via electronic means became an attractive alternative for media publishers.
The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a book-length book in
electronic form. An e-book is generally made accessible through the world wide web, but also on
CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books might be read either via a computing device with an
LED display like a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a portable
e-ink display device known as 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 employing this technology, because the screens on e-book readers are much
less reflective.

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