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Advantages of Reading
As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of these great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so extensive,
investment time to browse. In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or part of a
longer article, a use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on many
scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for example,
each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a book is the
compositional whole of that such sections, whether known as books or chapters or components,
are parts.
The academic material in a physical book does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such matters as crossword puzzles
or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may contain an abstract set of
lines as service for ongoing entrances, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an autograph
book, a laptop, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are created with pages thick
and sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a scrapbook or photograph 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 subject, in library and
information science monograph describes more broadly any non-serial book complete in 1 volume
(book) or a finite number of volumes (a novel 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 books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A store where books are purchased and
sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold everywhere. Google has estimated that as of
2010, approximately 130,000,000 different titles had been released. In some wealthier countries,
the sale of published books has diminished due to the increased usage of e-books.
In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance
to share texts through electronic means became an appealing option for media publishers. The
term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to some book-length publication in digital
form. An e-book is generally made available through the world wide web, but also on CD-ROM and
other forms. E-Books might be read either via a computing device with an LED screen such as a
traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a portable e-ink display device
called an e-book reader, like 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
employing this technology, since the screens on e-book readers are not as reflective.
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