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"Book Binding" refers to the format of an edition of a book.
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| x Paperback |
A paperback (also known as softback or softcover) is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover or hardback books are bound with...
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| x Trade paperback |
In comics, a trade paperback (often shortened to TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected...
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A mass market paperback (MMP) is a small, non-illustrated, and relatively cheap version of a book, usually coming out after the hardback and often sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airport and supermarket, as well as in...
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| x Boxed set |
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A box set (also known as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related items that are contained in a box.
In the case of music, contemporary box sets are usually made up of...
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A chapbook is a pocket-sized booklet. The term chap-book was formalized by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera (disposable printed material), popular or folk literature. It includes many kinds of printed material such as...
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| x Jewelled bookbinding |
A treasure binding, or jewelled bookbinding / jeweled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels and ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book-covers such as leather, velvet, or other...
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| x E-book |
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An electronic book (variously, e-book, ebook, digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the...
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| x Hardcover |
A hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when...
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| x Portable Document Format |
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe Systems, in 1993, for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document...
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| x Spiral-bound |
A lay-flat book binding which uses a spiral coil of wire to hold together pages which are perforated with holes on their binding edge.
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| x Library binding |
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Library binding is the term used to describe the method of binding serials, and re-binding paperback or hardcover books, for use within libraries. Library binding increases the durability of books, as well as making the materials easier to use. The...
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| x Audio book |
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An audiobook is a recording of a text being read. It is not necessarily an exact audio version of a book or magazine.
Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken...
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| x Pamphlet |
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A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages...
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| x Quarto |
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Quarto (abbreviated 4to or 4°) is a book or pamphlet produced from full 'blanksheets', each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded two times to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages). Each printed page now...
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| x Plastic Comb |
A lay-flat binding which uses a plastic "comb" with teeth to hold pages which are perforated with slits at the binding edge.
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| x Microform |
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Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size. For special...
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| x Dutton Adult | ||
| x EPUB |
EPUB (short for electronic publication; alternatively capitalized as ePub, ePUB, EPub, or epub, with "EPUB" preferred by the vendor) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension ...
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| x Cloth |
A hardcover format where the boards are covered with cloth fabric. Cloth is less durable than both canvas and buckram bindings.
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| x Half Russia |
Book binding that used a half binding technique with genuine dark reddish-brown Russia leather. The elaborately processed leather was impregnated with an aromatic oil distilled from a birch tree, tanned with willow bark, and dyed with sandalwood. ...
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| x Leather |
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Leather is a durable and flexible material created by the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, often cattle hide. It can be produced through manufacturing processes ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.
Several tanning...
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| x Russia cowhide |
Imitation Russia leather, also known as Russia cowhide or American Russia, is made of cowhide and given a straight grain and impregnated with a phenolic oil distilled from a European birch to resemble Russia leather.
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| x Sixteenmo |
A book format consisting, traditionally, of a sheet of paper folded so that there are 16 leaves and 32 pages. In modern practice, it equates to a book size about 6.75 x 4.5 inches.
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| x straight-grain morocco |
Goatskin that is wetted and worked with a ridged board to straighten the grain to run in parallel lines. Used about 1766 until 1810, often dyed green or red, and after, dark blue or black. The coarse version of this called scored calf.
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| x thirtysixmo |
A book format consisting, traditionally, of a sheet of paper cut, folded, and inset into a gathering of 36 leaves and 72 pages. In modern practice, a book size ranging from 4 x 3.25 and 4.75 x 3 inches.
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| x thirtytwomo |
A book format consisting, traditionally, of a sheet of paper cut, folded, and inset into a gathering so that there are 32 leaves and 64 pages. In modern practice, a book size around 4.75 x 3 inches.
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| x three-decker |
Usually a novel format that is originally issued in three octavo volumes, often with paper-covered boards and paper labels on the spine. Popular between 1850 and 1870. These had better binding in cloth and with gold stamping and were relatively...
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| x Canvas |
A hardcover binding that uses coarsely woven linen or cotton cloth to cover books. It is thicker and more durable than book-cloth but inferior to buckram. The term is also used for those bindings where the spine of the book is covered in canvas...
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| x Buckram |
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Buckram is a stiff cloth, made of cotton, and still occasionally linen, which is used to cover and protect books. Buckram can also be used to stiffen clothes. Modern buckrams have been stiffened by soaking in a substance, usually now pyroxylin, to...
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| x Gift book |
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Gift books, literary annuals or a keepsake, were 19th century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry. They were primarily published in the autumn, in time for the holiday season and were intended to be...
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| x Large-print |
Large-print (also large-type or large-font) describes a type of book or other (paper, online or otherwise) published material in which the typeface (or font), and sometimes the medium, are considerably larger than usual, to accommodate people who...
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The iPad ( /ˈaɪpæd/ EYE-pad) is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, apps and web content. Its size and weight fall between...
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| x Block book |
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Block books, also called xylographica, are short books of up to 50 leaves, printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations. The content of the books was nearly always...
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