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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of such great length that it
requires a considerable investment of time to write and a still considerable, though not so
comprehensive, investment of time to browse. In the limited sense, a book is a self explanatory
section or part of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long
works needed to be written on several scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified from the
book it contained. Therefore, for example, each part of Aristotles Physics is called a book. In the
unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of that these sections, whether called
chapters or books or parts, are components.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, 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
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 physical publications are created out
of 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 along with other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is known to be a specialist academic
work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in one volume (book) or a
finite number of volumes (a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in
contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or collector of
books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are bought and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be sold elsewhere. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles had been published. In some wealthier nations, the selling of
printed books has decreased due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, as a result of rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts via digital means became an attractive option for media publishers.
Thus, the"e-book" was made. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-
length publication in electronic form. An e-book is generally made available through the world wide
web, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books may be read either using a computing
device with an LED screen such as a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet computer; or
by means 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 using this technology, since the displays on e-book
readers are not as reflective.

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