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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a
substantial investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so comprehensive,
investment of time to browse. In the limited sense, a book is a self explanatory section or portion of
a longer article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long functions needed to be
written on several scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified from the book it contained.
Therefore, for instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted
sense, a publication is the compositional whole of which these segments, whether known as
chapters or books or parts, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor be called a book.
Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can contain an abstract
set of outlines as support for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books 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 and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance 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 any 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), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or collector of
novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books are also sold everywhere. Books may also
be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000
distinct titles had been published. In some wealthier countries, the selling of published books has
diminished due to the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts through digital means became an attractive alternative for media
publishers. The term e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to a book-length
publication in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible through the world wide web,
but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with
an LED display like a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a mobile
e-ink display device called an e-book reader, like the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo
eReader, or even 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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