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As an intellectual thing, a publication is prototypically a composition of these great length that it
takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so extensive,
investment time to read. In the limited sense, a publication is a self explanatory section or portion
of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long functions had to
be written on many scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified by the book it contained. So, for
example, each component of Aristotles Physics is called a book. From the unrestricted sense, a
book is the compositional whole of that such sections, whether called chapters or books or parts,
are components.

The intellectual content in a tangible book does not need to be a composition, nor even be called a
book. Novels can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photos, or such things as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages may be left blank or can feature an abstract
set of outlines as service for ongoing 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 encourage other physical items, like a scrapbook or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as e-books and other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a specialist academic
work, instead of 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 (publication
) or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost
Time), compared to serial publications like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or
reader of books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A store where books are bought and
sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels can also be sold everywhere. Books can also be
borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct
titles had been released. In some wealthier nations, the selling of published books has diminished
due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
chance to share texts via digital means became an appealing option for media publishers. Hence,
the"e-book" was made. The expression e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it pertains to a
book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is generally made accessible through the
world wide web, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books might be read either via a
computing device with an LED display 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, 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 employing this technology, because the displays on e-
book readers are much less reflective.

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