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  2. Paperback - Wikipedia

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    Paperback. A paperback ( softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic. Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the ...

  3. Endpaper - Wikipedia

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    The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the first free page (the free endpaper or flyleaf). [1] Thus, the front endpapers precede the title page and the text, whereas the ...

  4. Book design - Wikipedia

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    On the inside of the back cover page, extending from the facing page before it, is the endpaper. Its design matches the front endpaper and, in accordance with it, contains either plain paper or pattern, image etc. The back cover often contains biographical matter about the author or editor, and quotes from other sources praising the book.

  5. Dust jacket - Wikipedia

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    A dust jacket, propped up and partially unfolded for illustration. The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers; these flaps may also ...

  6. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    Book cover. Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives and additions, such as ...

  7. Foxing - Wikipedia

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    Foxing is an age-related process of deterioration that causes spots and browning on old paper documents such as books, postage stamps, old paper money and certificates. The name may derive from the fox -like reddish-brown color of the stains, [1] or the rust chemical ferric oxide which may be involved. Paper so affected is said to be "foxed".

  8. Pamphlet - Wikipedia

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    Pamphlet. An 18th-century painting of a girl with a basket of pamphlets. Due to their low cost and ease of production, pamphlets have often been used to popularize political or religious ideas. A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding ). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both ...

  9. Hardcover - Wikipedia

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    Hardcover. A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather ). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a ...

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