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Benefits of Reading
As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it takes a
substantial investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive, investment
of time to read. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In the
restricted sense, a book is a self explanatory section or portion of a longer composition, a usage
that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on many scrolls, and
each scroll needed to be identified from the publication it included. Therefore, for example, each
component of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is
the compositional whole of which these sections, whether called chapters or books or parts, are
components.
The academic material in a physical book need not be a makeup, nor even be called a book.
Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword puzzles or
cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can feature an abstract group of
outlines as service for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph
book, a notebook, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created with pages
thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a record or picture album. Books
may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.
Although in normal academic parlance that 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 denotes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in 1 volume (book)
or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost
Time), compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or
reader of books 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, roughly 130,000,000
distinct titles were published. In some wealthier countries, the selling of published books has
decreased because of the increased usage of e-books.
In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the opportunity to
share texts via digital means became an appealing alternative for media publishers. Thus, the"e-
book" was created. The term e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some book-
length publication in digital form. An e-book is usually made available through the internet, but also
on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an LED
display like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a mobile e-ink
screen device called an e-book reader, such as the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo
eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print
book by employing this technology, since the screens on e-book readers are much less reflective.
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