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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
substantial investment of time to write and a still significant, though not so extensive, investment
time to read. In the restricted sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer
composition, a use that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several
scrolls, and every scroll needed to be identified from the publication it contained. So, for instance,
each part of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a publication
is the compositional whole of that such segments, whether called books or chapters or parts, are
components.

The intellectual content in a physical publication does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a
book. Novels can consist just 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 may contain
an abstract set of outlines as service for continuing entrances, e.g., an account book, an
appointment book, an autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily
publications are created out of pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like
a scrapbook or picture album. Books could be distributed in digital form as e-books along with
other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance 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 denotes more broadly every non-serial book complete in one volume (book) 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. An avid reader or reader of novels is a
bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Novels are also sold everywhere. Books may also be
borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct
titles had been published. In some wealthier countries, the sale of printed books has decreased
due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts via digital means became an attractive alternative for media publishers. Thus, the"e-
book" was made. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some
book-length publication in digital form. An e-book is generally made available 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 screen like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by means of a
portable e-ink screen 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, because the displays onto e-
book readers are much less reflective.

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