Empty pages at the end of the book may be due to the printing process. When a book is printed, pages are laid out in formats of four, eight, sixteen, or thirty-two pages on large paper sheet sizes.

Open a book and find the page you want to print. Resize the browser (or desktop) window so that it matches the aspect ratio of an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. It doesn't have to be exact; just ...

By the end of the 15 th century, almost all printed books had title pages. A table of contents is another tool for orienting in a text. The earliest tables appear to date back to Pliny the Elder, ...

As a book artist who has illustrated a variety of works from Lewis Carroll’s Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to the Holy Bible, Moser is particularly enamored of the way ink is absorbed on the ...

The Case for Indefinitely Printed Books. There are some good arguments to make for the future of printed books. · Slow growth. Though eBooks are becoming more popular, the rate of growth isn’t as fast ...

Until then, there were no books as we understand them – pages printed serially for broad distribution. Each book at the time was an independent creation, produced by manual labor that took months.

In today’s digital age, reading is often done through e-readers, smartphones, and tablets. While digital books offer convenience, printed books hold distinct advantages for both the body and mind. Let ...

The pages, from the priest handbook 'Sarum Ordinal or Sarum Pye,' was printed in 1476 or 1477 by William Caxton.