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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a
considerable investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so comprehensive,
investment time to browse. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. 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 many scrolls, and every scroll
needed to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for instance, each component of
Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a publication is the compositional
whole of that such segments, whether called books or chapters or parts, are parts.

The academic material in a physical publication need not be a makeup, nor be called a novel.
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 can be left blank or may contain an abstract
set of outlines as support for ongoing entries, 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 encourage other physical items, like a record or picture album.
Books may 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 topic, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly every non-serial book complete in 1 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. A store where books are bought and
sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels can also be sold everywhere. Google has estimated that
as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 distinct titles had been released. In some wealthier countries, the
sale of published 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
opportunity to share texts through electronic means became an appealing option for media
publishers. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-length book
in electronic form. An e-book is usually made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM
along with other forms. E-Books may be read either via a computing device with an LED display
such as a conventional computer, a smartphone or a tablet pc; or by way of a mobile e-ink screen
device called 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, since the displays on e-book readers are not as reflective.

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