New Books With Rough Page Edges

jadel wrote:

Too bad. Except to pedants, it's a deckle edge--pseudo or not.

An odd thing to say. You'd have to be moderately pedantic to come up
with a word like deckle in the first place.

John

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On Jun 16, 9:23 pm, "my-wings" wrote:
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On Jun 16, 1:58 am, "John" wrote:
Hope my subject described this correctly. What is it about books
being
made
that have "rough" page edges, as if they're supposed to look all old &
ancient right off the shelf? When I was younger, I used to think that
this
was cool -- made me feel sort of erudite. Now that I read much more,
I
find
it quite annoying when I turn pages.

By the way, is there a word for this?

Silly?

It's a deckle edge. Photofinishers used to make prints with deckle
edges; you'd probably dislike them, too.

J. Del Col

I personally wouldn't use "deckle edge" except for the real thing,...


Too bad. Except to pedants, it's a deckle edge--pseudo or not.


You make "pedant" sound like a *bad* thing.

Alice
(Not buying it.)

"Scot Kamins" wrote in message
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In article ,
Barbara Bailey wrote:

Alice, that page is incredibly helpful! The differences between the
examples are clear, and both the photography and the explanations are
beautiful.

I agree. Thanks for doing this, Alice. I may have to post a link to your
whole "book terms" section on ModernLib. :-D

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Thanks, Scot. I'd be honored.

I really started those pages as a help to myself. When I first started
reading book descriptions, it took me forever to figure out what "bumped"
meant. And remainder marks are a subject onto themselves. I'd do a page,
then post a link here and ask for comments. Thanks to the incredible
knowledge and helpfulness of some posters in this group, I was able to get a
respectable set of pages that are by far the most popular on my site.

Alice

On Jun 18, 6:01 pm, "John R. Yamamoto-Wilson"
wrote:
jadel wrote:
Too bad. Except to pedants, it's a deckle edge--pseudo or not.

An odd thing to say. You'd have to be moderately pedantic to come up
with a word like deckle in the first place.

I learned it many years ago, before I could even spell "pedantic." My
dad made his own photo prints; some with deckle edges.

J. Del Col

wrote:

The book collecting term for "rough" page edges is "uncut;" however,
it might be wiser to say that the edges are "untrimmed." Quite
often, the term "uncut" is confused with the term "unopened." which
means that the pages of a signature have not been "separated."

I occasionally get an old book that is "unopened". One can imagine the
book never being used for one reason or another and kicking around a
long time (e.g., a gift to someone uninterested, but who doesn't want to
toss out a present). What I find remarkable, though, is the occasional
book where all but a few pages at the front are "unopened", but the ones
that are have notes penciled in all over the place.

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