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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a makeup of these great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so comprehensive,
investment time to read. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. 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 contained. Therefore, for instance, each component of Aristotles
Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of
which such sections, whether known as books or chapters or parts, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
Novels 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 feature an abstract
group of lines as service for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are made out of pages
thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a scrapbook or photograph album.
Books could be distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that 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 denotes 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 collector of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are
bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be sold everywhere. Google has
estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 different titles had been published. In some
wealthier nations, the selling of printed books has decreased because of the increased usage of e-
books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via electronic means became an attractive alternative for media publishers. Hence,
the"e-book" was created. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a
book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is generally made accessible through the
internet, but also on CD-ROM and 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 computer; or by
means of a mobile e-ink display device known as an e-book reader, such as 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 using this technology, since the screens on e-book
readers are not as reflective.

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