Outline of books
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to books:
Book – set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
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Contents
- 1 What type of thing is a book?
- 2 Types of books
- 3 Physical parts of a book
- 4 Contents of a book
- 5 Study of books
- 6 Book collections
- 7 Book identification and classification
- 8 History of books
- 9 Book production
- 10 Book distribution
- 11 Politics of books
- 12 Book culture
- 13 Specific books
- 14 Book-related organizations
- 15 Publications about books
- 16 Persons influential in relation to books
- 17 See also
- 18 References
- 19 External links
What type of thing is a book?
A book is a medium for a collection of words and/or pictures to represent knowledge, often manifested in bound paper and ink, or in ebooks.
Books can be described as all of the following:
- Type of publication –
- Format of literature –
Types of books
- Advance copy –
- Airline timetable –
- Airport novel –
- Alphabet book –
- Alternative formats –
- Antiquarian science books –
- Antisemitica –
- Autograph book –
- Big Little Book series –
- Blook –
- Board book –
- Book size –
- Book-and-record set –
- Books for the Blind –
- Books of secrets –
- Calendar –
- Catalogue raisonné –
- Chansonnier –
- Chapbook
- Chapter book –
- Choirbook –
- Codex –
- Coffee table book –
- Coloring book –
- Comedia suelta –
- Commonplace book –
- Condolence book –
- Confession album –
- Controversial literature (Library of Congress Subject Headings) –
- Dream diary –
- E-text –
- Encyclopedia
- Edited volume –
- Exhibition catalogue –
- Festival book –
- Festschrift –
- Flip book –
- Handscroll –
- Herbal –
- Illuminated manuscript –
- Incunable –
- Interactive children's book –
- Kashi-hon –
- Limited edition books –
- Liturgical book –
- Mapback –
- Mass-market paperback –
- Midlist –
- Miniature book –
- Miscellany –
- Monograph –
- Movable book –
- Networked book –
- Novelization –
- Online book –
- Orihon –
- Out-of-print book –
- Paperback –
- Personalized book –
- Photo-book –
- Picture book –
- Pop-up book –
- Postmodern picture book –
- Punch out book –
- Radio audiobook –
- Reference Book
- Remaindered book –
- Samut khoi –
- Scroll –
- Social Register –
- Sticker album –
- Stripped book –
- Table-book –
- Tankōbon –
- Textbook –
- Three-volume novel –
- Tie-in –
- Tokyo Kodomo Club –
- Tract (literature) –
- Trade paperback –
- Used book –
- Volume (bibliography) –
- Wallbook –
- Wimmelbilderbuch –
- Yearbook –
Physical parts of a book
- Leaf – a single sheet, the left-hand page of which is the verso, and right-hand page is the recto
- Book cover – protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book.
- Dust jacket – 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.
Contents of a book
Subject matter
Structure of book content
Book design – the common structural parts of a book include:
- Front cover: hardbound or softcover (paperback); the spine is the binding that joins the front and rear covers where the pages hinge.
- Front endpaper
- Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves following the front free endpaper.
- Front matter
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright page: typically verso of title page: shows copyright owner/date, credits, edition/printing, cataloguing details
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
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Binding of a book from separate papers
- Body: the text or contents, the pages often collected or folded into signatures; the pages are usually numbered sequentially, and often divided into chapters.
- Back matter
- Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves (if any) preceding the back free endpaper.
- Rear endpaper
- Rear cover
Study of books
Book collections
Book identification and classification
Classification systems
- Bliss bibliographic classification (BC)
- Chinese Library Classification (CLC)
- Colon Classification
- Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
- Harvard-Yenching Classification
- Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
- New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries
- Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
History of books
- History of writing
- History of scrolls
- History of the codex
- History of printing
- Moveable type
- Printing Revolution
- Developments
- Woodblock printing (200)
- Movable type (1040)
- Printing press (1454)
- Etching (ca. 1500)
- Mezzotint (1642)
- Aquatint (1768)
- Lithography (1796)
- Chromolithography (1837)
- Rotary press (1843)
- Offset printing (1875)
- Hectograph (19th century)
- Hot metal typesetting (1886)
- Mimeograph (1890)
- Screen printing (1907)
- Spirit duplicator (1923)
- Dye-sublimation (1957)
- Phototypesetting (1960s)
- Dot matrix printer (1964)
- Laser printing (1969)
- Thermal printing (ca. 1972)
- Inkjet printing (1976)
- Stereolithography (1986)
- Digital press (1993)
- 3D printing (ca. 2003)
Book production
- Book publishing –
- Writing –
- Author –
- Editing –
- Printing –
- Bookbinding –
Book distribution
- Bookselling –
- Libraries –
Politics of books
Book culture
Specific books
Books by title
- Lists of books by subject
- Lists of books by writer
- Lists of novels
- Lists of controversial books
- List of banned books
- List of book titles taken from literature
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Publications about books
New York Review of Books[1] – an American magazine containing lietary criticism, and discussions of the contents of various books.
Persons influential in relation to books
- Johannes Gutenberg – inventor of movable type.
- Lord Stanhope – built a press out of cast iron, reducing force required by 90%, doubling the size of the printed area.[2]
See also
References
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- ↑ Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (pp 130–133) ISBN 0-471-29198-6
External links
- Centre for the History of the Book
- Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- Old Books, How to find information on publication history and value (1998) Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Bookbinding and the Conservation of books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, 1982 by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
- IOBA glossary of book terms
- Project Gutenberg - Free e-Books
- Words at Large: The best in books from CBC.ca
- History of books
- Centre for the History of the Book
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society
- Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
- Toronto Centre for the Book
- Dan Traister's Page
- Internet resources in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies from Senate House Library, University of London
- Development of the Printed Page at the University of South Carolina Library's Digital Collections Page
- Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland
- Consortium of European Research Libraries
- 12 - 17th century manuscripts, including Vulgates, Books of Hours, Wills, Legal Contracts and Medicinal Texts, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
