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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a makeup of these great length that it takes a
substantial 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
restricted sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or part of a longer article, a use that
reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long functions had to be written on many scrolls, and each scroll
needed to be identified by the book it contained. So, for instance, each component of Aristotles
Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a publication is the compositional whole of
which such segments, whether called chapters or books or parts, are parts.

The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a makeup, nor be called a book. Novels can
consist only of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword puzzles or cut-out
dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may feature an abstract set of outlines as
support for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book, a
notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created with pages thick and
sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a record or photograph 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, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly topic, 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 novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost
Time), compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A store where
books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold everywhere. Google
has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 different titles had been released. In
some wealthier countries, the sale of printed books has decreased because of the increased use of
e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via digital means became an appealing option for media publishers. The term e-book is
a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to a book-length publication in digital form. An e-book
is usually made accessible through the internet, but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books
may be read either using a computing device with an LED display such as a conventional
computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a mobile e-ink screen device known as 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 onto e-book readers are not as reflective.

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