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Benefits 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 compose and a still considerable, though not so
comprehensive, investment of time to browse. In the limited sense, a publication is a self
explanatory section or part of a longer article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity,
long functions had to be written on many scrolls, and every scroll needed to be identified from the
publication it contained. Therefore, for example, each part of Aristotles Physics is called a book.
From the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of that these sections, whether
known as books or chapters or components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a physical book does not need to be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Novels can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages may be left blank or may feature an abstract
set of outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are created with pages
thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical objects, like a record or picture album. Books
may be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is understood to be a specialist academic
work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly every non-serial publication complete in one 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. Novels are also sold everywhere.
Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately
130,000,000 distinct titles had been published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of published
books has decreased due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via digital means became an attractive option for media publishers. Thus, the"e-book"
was created. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a 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 may be read either using a computing device with an
LED screen such as a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; 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 try to mimic the experience of reading
a print book by employing this technology, since the displays onto e-book readers are much less
reflective.

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