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Benefits of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of such great length that it
requires a considerable investment of time to write and a still significant, though not so extensive,
investment of time to browse. In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or
portion of a longer composition, 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 book it included.
So, for instance, each part of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense,
a publication is the compositional whole of that these segments, whether known as chapters or
books or components, are components.

The intellectual content in a physical publication does not need to be a composition, nor be called a
book. 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 may feature
an abstract group of lines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment
book, an autograph book, a notebook, 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
photograph album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other
formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a specialist
academic work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information
science monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial book complete in 1 volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A store where books are
bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold elsewhere. Google has estimated
that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles were published. In some wealthier
nations, the selling of printed books has decreased due to the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via electronic means became an appealing alternative for media
publishers. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-length
publication in digital form. An e-book is usually made accessible through the internet, but also on
CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an
LED screen like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a mobile e-ink
screen device called 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 using this technology, because the screens onto e-book readers are much less reflective.

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