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Benefits 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 write and a still considerable, though not so extensive,
investment of time to read. In the limited sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer
article, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long functions had to be written on several
scrolls, and each scroll had to be identified by the publication it contained. Therefore, for example,
each part 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 chapters or books or components,
are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible book does not need to be a composition, nor be called a
novel. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as
crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. At a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can contain
an abstract group of outlines as support for continuing entries, e.g., an account book, an
appointment book, an autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books
are made out of pages thick and sturdy enough to encourage other physical items, like a record or
picture album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance a monograph is known to be a specialist academic work,
instead of a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly any non-serial book complete in one volume (publication ) or a
finite number of volumes (even a novel like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. 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 countries, the selling of printed books has decreased because
of the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via electronic means became an attractive alternative for media
publishers. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to some book-length
book in digital form. An e-book is usually made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM
and other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an LED display such
as a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by means of a portable e-ink
screen device known as an e-book reader, like the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo
eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print
book by using this technology, since the displays on e-book readers are not as reflective.

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