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Advantages of Reading
As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a makeup of such great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment of time to browse. This sense of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense.
In the restricted sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or part of a longer article, a use
that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to be written on several scrolls, and each
scroll needed to be identified by the publication it contained. So, for instance, each part of
Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is the
compositional whole of which such sections, whether known as books or chapters or components,
are parts.
The academic material in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Novels can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as
crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can feature
an abstract set of lines as support for continuing entrances, e.g., an account book, an appointment
book, an autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical objects, like a scrapbook or
photograph album. Books could be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.
Although in ordinary academic parlance that 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 describes more broadly every 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". A store where books are
bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be sold everywhere. Google has
estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were released. In some wealthier
nations, the selling of published books has decreased because of the increased use of e-books.
In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via digital means became an appealing alternative for media publishers.
The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a book-length publication in
electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible 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 screen
like a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a mobile e-ink screen
device known as 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 using this technology, because the screens on e-book readers are not as reflective.
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