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As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it requires a
substantial investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so comprehensive,
investment of time to read. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In
the restricted sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or portion of a longer article, a use
that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to be written on many scrolls, and every
scroll needed to be identified by the publication it contained. So, for instance, each component of
Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is your
compositional whole of which such sections, whether known as chapters or books or components,
are components.

The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a composition, nor be called a novel. Books
can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such matters as crossword puzzles or cut-
out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or may contain an abstract group of lines
as service for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book,
a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made with pages thick and sturdy
enough to encourage other physical objects, like a record or photograph album. Books could 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, rather than 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 (a publication 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
novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are purchased and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. 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 nations, the sale of published books has diminished due to the
increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via digital means became an attractive alternative 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
book in electronic form. An e-book is usually made available through the world wide web, but also
on CD-ROM and 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 means of a mobile 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 try to mimic the experience of reading a print
publication by employing this technology, since the displays on e-book readers are not as
reflective.

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