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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
substantial investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so comprehensive,
investment of time to browse. In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or
portion of a longer article, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be
written on several scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified from the book it contained. So,
for example, each component of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted
sense, a publication is the compositional whole of which these sections, whether known as books
or chapters or components, are components.
The academic material in a physical publication need not be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Books can consist only 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 may feature an abstract
group 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 physical books are made with
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or picture album.
Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.
Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a professional
academic work, rather than 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 (publication ) or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume
In Search of Lost Time), compared to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An
avid reader or collector of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". Novels can also be
sold elsewhere. Google has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles were
released. In some wealthier nations, the selling of printed books has decreased due to the
increased use of e-books.
In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the opportunity to
share texts through digital means became an attractive option for media publishers. Thus, the"e-
book" was created. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some
book-length book in digital form. An e-book is generally made accessible through the world wide
web, but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books may be read either via a computing device
with an LED display like 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 even the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers attempt to mimic the
experience of reading a print book by employing this technology, because the displays on e-book
readers are much less reflective.
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