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Advantages of Reading
As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a composition of these great length that it
requires a substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so
extensive, investment time to browse. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted
sense. In the restricted sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or part of a longer
composition, a usage that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on
many scrolls, and every scroll had to be identified by the publication it contained. Therefore, for
instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the unrestricted sense, a
publication is your compositional whole of which these segments, whether called chapters or books
or components, are parts.
The intellectual content in a physical book 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. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may contain an abstract set of outlines as
support for ongoing entrances, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book, a
laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are created out of pages thick and sturdy
enough to support other physical objects, like a record 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 subject, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in 1 volume (publication )
or a finite number of volumes (a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time),
compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or
reader of novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books are also sold elsewhere. Books
can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately
130,000,000 different titles had been released. In some wealthier countries, 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 affordable handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts through digital means became an appealing alternative for media publishers. The term
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 internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms.
E-Books may be read either using a computing device with an LED display like a traditional
computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by means of a portable e-ink display device called
an e-book reader, such as 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 using
this technology, because the displays on e-book readers are not as reflective.
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