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  2. Wikipedia:Size in volumes - Wikipedia

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    In June 2015, artist Michael Mandiberg (User:Theredproject) generated a 7,473-volume print-ready collection of the English Wikipedia in PDF format, printed wallpaper representing the spines of the books, and printed over 100 volumes through print on demand service Lulu, as part of an art installation at the Denny Gallery in New York City. The ...

  3. Book size - Wikipedia

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    An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full sheet, would have height 240 mm (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)— 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 —and width 160 mm (6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in)— 1 ⁄ 4 in × 25. The sizes of books of the same format will differ in proportion to the full sheets used to print them.

  4. Octavo - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Wikipedia:Article size - Wikipedia

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    For most long articles, division into sections is natural anyway. Readers of the mobile version of Wikipedia can be helped by ensuring that sections are not so long or so numerous as to impede navigation. A page of about 10,000 words takes between 30 and 40 minutes to read at average speed, which is close to the attention span of most readers. [1]

  6. Book - Wikipedia

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    When a book is printed, the pages are laid out on the plate so that after the printed sheet is folded the pages will be in the correct sequence. Books tend to be manufactured nowadays in a few standard sizes. The sizes of books are usually specified as "trim size": the size of the page after the sheet has been folded and trimmed. The standard ...

  7. Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 12 January 2025, there are 6,939,014 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 690 words per article).

  8. Paper size - Wikipedia

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    That means (in practice) it has turned out to be not so much a paper size as a page format. Apple, for instance, requires this format for digital music album booklets. [18] The size 210 mm × 280 mm was documented in the Canadian standard CAN2-200.2-M79 "Common Image Area for Paper Sizes P4 and A4". [19]

  9. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    On the first page of the document, the author's name and contact information appears in the top left corner. In the top right corner of the first page, the word count appears. [1] Subsequent pages only have text in the top right corner. This text includes: the author's name, a slash, an abbreviated title, another slash, and the page number. [1]