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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a composition of these 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 part of a longer article, a use that
reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long functions had to be written on several scrolls, and each scroll
had to be identified by the book it included. So, for example, each component of Aristotles Physics
is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of that these
sections, whether known as chapters or books or parts, are components.

The intellectual content in a physical book does not need to be a composition, nor be called a
book. Books can consist only 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 may feature an abstract
set of outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are created with
pages thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a record or photograph
album. Books could be distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance a monograph is known to be a specialist academic work,
instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial book complete in 1 volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in contrast to
serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A store where books are purchased and
sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels can also be sold elsewhere. Books may also be borrowed
from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles were
released. In some wealthier nations, the selling of published books has diminished due to the
increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via electronic means became an attractive alternative for media publishers. Thus,
the"e-book" was created. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a
book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is generally made available through the
internet, but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books might be read either via a computing
device with an LED screen like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by
way of a portable e-ink screen device called 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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