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Advantages of Reading
As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of these 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 explanatory section or part
of a longer composition, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works needed to
be written on many scrolls, and each scroll had to be identified by the publication it contained. So,
for instance, each part of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense, a
book is the compositional whole of which these segments, whether known as chapters or books or
parts, are parts.
The academic material in a physical publication does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a
book. Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can contain an abstract
set of lines as service for continuing entrances, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a journal, or a sketchbook. Some bodily publications are made with
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, 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 understood to be a professional
academic work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information
science monograph describes more broadly any non-serial book complete in 1 volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A passionate reader or
collector of novels is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Books 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 released. In some wealthier nations, the selling of printed
books has decreased because of 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 alternative for media publishers. Hence, the"e-
book" was created. The term e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some book-
length publication in electronic 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 via a computing device with
an LED display such as a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by way of
a mobile e-ink display device called an e-book reader, like 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 employing this technology, because the displays on e-book readers
are much less reflective.
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