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Benefits 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 compose and a still considerable, though not so
extensive, investment time to browse. This feeling of book 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
usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long functions had to be written on several scrolls, and
each scroll needed to be identified from the publication it contained. Therefore, for instance, each
component of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. From the unrestricted sense, a
publication is the compositional whole of that such sections, whether called chapters or books or
parts, are parts.
The intellectual content in a physical publication does not need to be a makeup, nor even be called
a novel. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters 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 service for ongoing entries, e.g., an account book, an appointment
book, an autograph book, a notebook, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some bodily books are made out
of pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a record or photograph
album. Books may be distributed in digital form as e-books and other formats.
Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is known to be a professional academic
work, rather than a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information science
monograph denotes more broadly every non-serial book complete in one volume (book) or a finite
number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of Lost Time),
compared to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. An avid reader or reader of
books is a bibliophile or colloquially,"bookworm". A shop where books are purchased and sold is a
bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold everywhere. Google has estimated that as of 2010,
roughly 130,000,000 different titles were released. In some wealthier nations, the sale of published
books has diminished because of the increased use of e-books.
In the 2000s, due to the growth in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the
opportunity to share texts through electronic means became an attractive alternative for media
publishers. Thus, the"e-book" was created. The term e-book is a contraction of"digital book"; it
refers to a book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible
through the internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books may be read either
using a computing device with an LED display such as a traditional computer, a smartphone or a
tablet pc; or by means of a mobile e-ink display device known as an e-book reader, like the Sony
Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers attempt to
mimic the experience of reading a print book by employing this technology, because the displays
on e-book readers are much less reflective.
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