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As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a makeup of these great length that it takes a
substantial investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so extensive,
investment time to browse. In the restricted sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or
portion of a longer composition, a use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be
written on many scrolls, and every scroll needed to be identified from the book it included.
Therefore, for example, each part 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
components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can feature an abstract
set of outlines as service for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created out
of pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a scrapbook or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is understood to be a professional 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 one volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. Novels are also sold
elsewhere. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
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published books has diminished because of the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
chance to share texts via digital means became an appealing option for media publishers. The
expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to some book-length book in
electronic form. An e-book is generally made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM
and other forms. E-Books may be read either using a computing device with an LED screen such
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