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September 04, 2011 20:32

In the catalog I regularly come across a paperback called "paperback" or vice versa. So a quote from Wikipedia:

A paperback is a book with a glued spine; the cover is a paper cover with a plastic layer. Paperbacks originated in the Netherlands in the late 1950s as a large version of the paperback book . Illustrative is the name Literaire Reuzenpocket for a series of paperbacks by De Bezige Bij .

In English, a paperback is a soft cover book, both small and large format. In Dutch, paperback is used exclusively for large paperback books. Soft cover is also used for small format books in English.

Incidentally, it also occasionally happens that a paperback is called "mini book". The distinction is difficult to indicate, but I think that a mini book is usually a (very) small paperback.

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  • November 16, 2011 14:45
November 16, 2011 14:45

Good day,

I bought myself a series of "wheel of time" from Robert Jordan HARDCOVER. You can also get these in paperback .. Now I saw that the number of pages of the paperback exceeds that of the harcover by over 100.

I now wonder whether the content of both books is the same, or whether part of it was deleted in the hardcover version ?.

It seems unusual to me that the paperback, which is larger in size than the hardcover, has more pages than the hardcover.

The hardcover is also cheaper than the paperback.

Who can answer me with full knowledge of the facts?

Marcella

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November 16, 2011 15:32

Dear Marcella,

what you ask is a completely different topic, even if it is about a paperback.

In the book forum you can click on Books General and then on the button New topic. I suggest that you ask your question again there, because then I think you will get an answer more quickly. The topic of this forum post is the question of vertigo and people who want to answer it look at it. Your question is not clearly visible in the topic, so you will not easily get people to answer it.

Unfortunately I don't know the book series, so I can't give a sensible answer to that either. It could be if you are referring to the number of pages specified in CataWiki. In that case, a typing error could of course have crept in. Is the paperback not a bundle?

@Vertigo: I had to give Marcella (Eddydv ??) some good advice, hope not that your explanation will go unnoticed. It remains difficult, why have we Dutch never found a good translation for it, not even Belgian (??).?

I know of pocket books with comics, but they are really comics, but that's not what you mean;).

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November 16, 2011 23:08

@marcella: In the wikipedia I found this about Jordan's books:

"The books below are available in paperback, hardcover and best-buy. The best-buy series was recently replaced by a hardcover series."

That means that there is indeed a cheap hardcover series. It is unlikely that this hardcover version differs from the paperback version in terms of text. The most logical explanation for the difference in pages is that the cheap hardcover version is printed in a (much?) Smaller type than the paperback edition.

@DisneyMeentwijck: If, as in Anglo-Saxon countries, we were to call all softcover books paperbacks, then there would be no problem.

But I wouldn't like it. All those differences have evolved historically. Perhaps we should cherish our words "pockets" and "paperbacks" as endangered cultural assets.

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