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[1] The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. [2] A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller).
A trade paperback (also called trade paper edition and trade) is a higher-quality paperback book. [34] If it is a softcover edition of a previous hardcover edition and is published by the same house as the hardcover, the text pages are normally identical with those of the hardcover edition, and the book is almost the same size as the hardcover ...
Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.
Comparison of some book sizes: Image title: Comparison of some book sizes based on American Library Association, by CMG Lee. Width: 100%: Height: 100%
The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...
Typically, books papers are light-weight papers 60 to 90 g/m 2 and often specified by their caliper/substance ratios (volume basis). For example, a bulky 80 g/m 2 paper may have a caliper of 120 micrometres (0.12 mm) which would be Volume 15 (120×10/80), whereas a low bulk 80 g/m 2 may have a caliper of 88 micrometres, giving a volume 11.
The small format size, 4.25" by 6.5" (10.8 cm by 16.5 cm) and the fact that the books were glued rather than stitched, were cost-cutting innovations. The first ten numbered Pocket Book titles published in May 1939 with a print run of about 10,000 copies each: Lost Horizon by James Hilton; Wake Up and Live by Dorothea Brande
Ratio 1:1, the content is enlarged on a single (1) portrait page and the common typological size is 18 points. Ratio 1:2, the content is enlarged on two (2) landscape page and the common typological size is 18 points. Custom ratios, the content is enlarged on multiple landscape pages and the common typological size is 28 points.