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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition 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 browse. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In the
restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or portion of a longer article, a use that reflects
the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to be written on many scrolls, and each scroll
needed to be identified by the publication it contained. So, for example, each part of Aristotles
Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is your compositional whole of
which such segments, whether called books or chapters or parts, are components.

The academic material in a tangible publication does not need to be a composition, nor even be
called a novel. Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as
crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can contain
an abstract set of outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment
book, an autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily publications are made
with pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or
photograph 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 subject, in library and
information science monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in one
volume (publication ) or a finite number of volumes (even a novel 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 novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Novels can also be sold
elsewhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles had been released. In some wealthier countries, the selling of
published books has diminished due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
chance to share texts through electronic means became an appealing option for media publishers.
Thus, the"e-book" was created. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital 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 and other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with
an LED screen like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a portable
e-ink screen device called an e-book reader, like 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
publication by employing this technology, because the screens on e-book readers are much less
reflective.

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