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For most of the history of book making, books have been shared as

physical books. However, with changes of technologies and


growing awareness of the needs of people who have reading
disabilities, other formats such as audiobooks and digital books
have gained traction in the book market place.

Physical books
Hardcover books have a stiff binding. Paperback books have
cheaper, flexible covers which tend to be less durable. An Hardcover books
alternative to paperback is the glossy cover, otherwise known as a
dust cover, found on magazines, and comic books. Spiral-bound
books are bound by spirals made of metal or plastic. Examples of
spiral-bound books include teachers' manuals and puzzle books
(crosswords, sudoku).

Publishers may produce low-cost, pre-publication copies known as


galleys or 'bound proofs' for promotional purposes, such as
generating reviews in advance of publication. Galleys are usually
made as cheaply as possible, since they are not intended for sale.
Paperback books

Size
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the
height and width of its cover.[50] A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for
the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo
(still smaller). Historically, these terms referred to the format of the book, a technical term used by
printers and bibliographers to indicate the size of a leaf in terms of the size of the original sheet. For
example, a quarto (from Latin quartō, ablative form of quartus, fourth[51]) historically was a book
printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to
produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a
leaf refers to the single piece of paper, whereas a page is one side of a leaf. Because the actual format
of many modern books cannot be determined from examination of the books, bibliographers may not
use these terms in scholarly descriptions.

Dummy books
Dummy books (or faux books) are books that are designed to
imitate a real book by appearance to deceive people, some books
may be whole with empty pages, others may be hollow or in other
cases, there may be a whole panel carved with spines which are
then painted to look like books, titles of some books may also be
fictitious.

There are many reasons to have dummy books on display such as;
Cigarette smuggling with a book
to allude visitors of the vast wealth of information in their
possession and to inflate the owner's appearance of wealth, to
conceal something, [52] for shop displays or for decorative purposes.

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