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Buckram variety swatches that can be used to cover books. Library binding can be divided into the two major categories of "original" and "after market". The original category is as it says: the book was originally bound with the idea that it would be used in a library setting where the book would receive harder use than those usual trade editions sold to the public.
Library binding refers to the hardcover binding of books intended for the rigors of library use and are largely serials and paperback publications. Though many publishers have started to provide "library binding" editions, many libraries elect to purchase paperbacks and have them rebound in hard covers for longer life.
Ex-lib: Ex-Library copy, a book once held in library. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Not to be confused with Ex Libris. Ex Libris: From the library of, referring to previous owner—often found on bookplates .
In 1969, the first university-level conservation conference occurred at the University of Chicago where they published Deterioration and Preservation of Library Materials. [28] In the United States, the branch bindery for the Library of Congress was created in 1900 for the Government Printing Office, under Chief Clerk Arthur Kimball. [29]
A prebound book is a book that was previously bound and has been rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. In almost all commercial cases, the book in question began as a paperback version. An alternate term is "Library Hardcover Paperback".
The original tooled red goatskin binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving Western binding. The British Library contains a wide range of fine and historic bookbindings; however, books in the Library are organised primarily by subject rather than by binding so the Library has produced a guide to enable researchers to identity bindings of interest. [1]
Some publishers publish paperback originals if slow hardback sales are anticipated. For very popular books these sales cycles may be extended, and followed by a mass market paperback edition typeset in a more compact size and printed on thinner, less hardy paper. This is intended to, in part, prolong the life of the immediate buying boom that ...
The digital book format used by the digital library company Chaoxing Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) [31] in China. It is a proprietary raster image compression and binding format, with reading time OCR plug-in modules.