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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of these 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. In the restricted sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or
part of a longer article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be
written on several scrolls, and every scroll needed to be identified from the publication 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 which these segments, whether called chapters or books or
components, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor be called a novel.
Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can contain an abstract
group of lines as service for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are created out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or photograph
album. Books could be distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is known 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 every non-serial publication complete in 1 volume (publication )
or a finite number of volumes (a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time),
compared to sequential books 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. Books are also sold everywhere. Books may also be borrowed
from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 different titles had
been published. In some wealthier nations, the sale of printed books has decreased due to 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 through digital means became an attractive option for media publishers. The term e-
book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it refers to a book-length book in digital form. An e-book
is generally made available through the world wide web, but also on CD-ROM along with other
forms. E-Books might be read either via a computing device with an LED display like a
conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a portable e-ink display 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 publication
by using this technology, since the displays on e-book readers are not as reflective.

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