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2. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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   Regardless of whether a book is bound with a hardcover or bound with a paperback cover, the binding of the signatures determines the durability of the book-as-artefact. In the case of perfect binding, the pages are aligned, cut, and glued with a strong and flexible layer that holds the book together. In a paperback book, the visible portion of ...

3. Bible - Wikipedia

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   The Bible is the world's most published book, with estimated total sales of over five billion copies. [180] As such, the Bible has had a profound influence, especially in the Western world, [181] [182] where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type. [183]

4. Library binding - Wikipedia

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   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. The aftermarket library binding is the method of binding serials, and re-binding paperback or hardcover books, for use within ...

5. The Books of the Bible (book) - Wikipedia

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   The biblical book of Samuel-Kings was divided into two parts in the original Hebrew so it would fit conveniently onto ancient scrolls.When it was translated into Greek it expanded by a third (because Greek writing uses more letters per word in average than Hebrew writing), and so each part was divided in half, producing the books known today as 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings and 2 Kings.

6. The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

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   The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...

7. Hardcover - Wikipedia

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   A typical hardcover book (1899), showing the wear signs of a cloth. A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound [1]) 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). [1]

8. Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia

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   A single complete copy of the Gutenberg Bible has 1,288 pages (4×322 = 1288) (usually bound in two volumes); with four pages per folio-sheet, 322 sheets of paper are required per copy. [24] The Bible's paper consists of linen fibers and is thought to have been imported from Caselle in Piedmont, Italy based on the watermarks present throughout ...

9. Asimov's Guide to the Bible - Wikipedia

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   Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969, [1] covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books (see Catholic Bible) and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.