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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 substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
comprehensive, investment of time to read. In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient
section or part of a longer composition, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long
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From the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which these sections, whether
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The academic material in a tangible publication does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a
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Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is known to be a professional academic
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In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
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