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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a composition of such great length that it
takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
extensive, investment time to read. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense.
In the limited sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or portion of a longer composition, a
use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on many scrolls, and every
scroll needed to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for instance, each component of
Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is your compositional
whole of which these sections, whether known as books or chapters or components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor be called a novel.
Books 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 entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph
book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are made out of pages thick and
sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a record or picture album. Books could be
distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in ordinary 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 publication complete in one volume
(book) or a finite number of volumes (a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost
Time), in contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or
collector of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Novels are also sold everywhere.
Google has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were released. In some
wealthier nations, the sale of published books has diminished because of the increased use 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 alternative for media publishers.
The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it refers to a book-length publication in
digital form. An e-book is usually made available through the world wide web, but also on CD-ROM
along with other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an LED
screen such as a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a mobile e-ink
display device called an e-book reader, such as 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 using this technology, because the screens onto e-book readers are not as
reflective.

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