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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of such great length that it
takes a substantial investment of time to write and a still significant, though not so comprehensive,
investment of time to read. This feeling of publication has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. In
the restricted sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer article, a use that
reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on many scrolls, and each scroll had
to be identified by the publication it included. Therefore, for example, each part of Aristotles
Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a publication is the compositional
whole of that these sections, whether known as chapters or books or parts, are parts.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Books can consist just of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. At 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 publications are created with
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 and other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance 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 publication complete in one volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (a novel 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 novels is a
bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A store where books are purchased and sold is a bookshop
or bookstore. Novels can also be sold elsewhere. Books may also be borrowed from libraries.
Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been released.
In some wealthier countries, the sale of published 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 appealing option for media publishers. Thus, the"e-book"
was made. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a book-length
book in digital form. An e-book is generally made available through the world wide web, but also on
CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books might be read either using a computing device with an LED
screen like a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a mobile e-ink
display device known as 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
publication by employing this technology, because the displays on e-book readers are much less
reflective.

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