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- Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material.
- There are various commercial techniques in use today.
- A hardcover or hardbound book has rigid covers and is stitched in the spine. Looking from the top of the spine, the book can be seen to consist of a number of signatures bound together. When the book is opened in the middle of a signature, the binding threads are visible.
- The covers of modern hardback books are of thick cardboard.
- A paperback or soft cover book consists of a number of signatures or individual leaves between covers of much heavier paper, glued together at the spine with strong flexible glue; this is sometimes called perfect binding.
- Mass market paperbacks are small cheaply made and often fall apart after much handling or several years.
