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Advantages of Reading

As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a makeup of these great length that it
requires a substantial investment of time to write and a still significant, though not so
comprehensive, investment 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 needed to be identified by the book it included. So, for instance, each
component of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a
publication is your compositional whole of which such sections, whether called chapters or books
or parts, are components.

The intellectual content in a tangible publication does not need to be a makeup, nor be called a
book. Novels can consist just 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 contain an abstract
group of outlines as support for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.

Although in ordinary academic parlance that a monograph is known to be a professional academic
work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly subject, in library and information science
monograph describes more broadly every non-serial publication complete in 1 volume (publication
) or a finite number of volumes (a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time),
compared to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A shop where books are
purchased and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold everywhere. Books can also
be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 different
titles were published. In some wealthier countries, the sale of published books has diminished
because of the increased usage of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts through electronic means became an appealing option for media publishers. The term
e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it refers to a book-length book in electronic 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 via a computing device with an LED display like a traditional computer,
a smartphone or a tablet computer; or by means of a mobile e-ink screen device called an e-book
reader, like the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book
readers try to mimic the experience of reading a print book by employing this technology, since the
screens onto e-book readers are much less reflective.

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Volume 1: To 1600 by John P. McKay,Bennett
D. Hill,John Buckler,Roger B. Beck,Clare
Haru Crowston,Patricia Buckley
Ebrey,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks