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The Anatomy Of A Book

Test yourself. Can you locate each of these book parts?


Book
___Front Coverboard (or Front Cover, for a Softcover)
___Backstrip (or Spine, for a Softcover)
___Rear Coverboard (or Rear Cover, for a Softcover)
___Joints
___Edges
___Corners and/or Tips
___Pagehead
___Fore-edge
___Pagetail
___Front Free Endpaper
___Front Pastedown Endpaper
___Rear Pastedown Endpaper
___Rear Free Endpaper
___Hinge(s)
___Front or Rear Blanks
___Half-Title Page
___Frontispiece
___Tissue Interleaf or Tissue Guard
___Title Page
___Copyright Page
___Textblock

Dustjacket
___Front Panel
___Spine Panel
___Rear Panel
___Edges
___Corners and /or Tips
___Folds
___Front Flap
___Rear Flap
___Inside

Note: There is no such thing in our vocabulary as a hardback or softback book. Those are names of tortoises, not books. One may say paperback, however, without going to hell.



Updated 05/10/10



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