Timeline for A word for really thin book pages
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| Oct 29, 2015 at 12:41 | comment | added | David Richerby | @PatrickM And, even taking all of that into account, the system is only going to be understood by people in North America who are familiar with fine art jargon. I'm pretty sure the rest of the world describes fine art paper in exactly the same way as they describe every other paper: in grams per square meter. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | David Richerby | @PatrickM Yes, the pound-weight is always the weight of a ream. The point is -- a ream of what? As your example shows, there's no uniform standard sheet size, and sheet size used to quote the weight isn't necessarily the same as the sheet size you're being sold. For example, the same copier paper might be described as either "20lb bond" or "50lb text weight", depending on what "standard" sheet size was used. Yet, an actual ream of letter-sized copier paper weighs nothing like 50lb or even 20lb: it's about 5lb. | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 22:40 | answer | added | JEL | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 20:30 | vote | accept | eimyr | ||
| Oct 28, 2015 at 18:51 | comment | added | Patrick M | Pound paper would be reasonably understood by people familiar with fine art jargon, as pound ratings are commonly used for painting and drawing supplies, especially watercolor. The number of pounds for paper generally describes the weight of a ream, or 500 sheets. But apparently even in the printing world there are many different ways to amend the weight, for example making 80lb cover heavier than 90lb index. | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 18:51 | comment | added | SomethingDark | I may jokingly refer to it as 1-ply. | |
| S Oct 28, 2015 at 18:26 | history | bounty started | John Mack | ||
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| Oct 28, 2015 at 13:25 | comment | added | Fattie | vellum ???? that is just totally unrelated | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:17 | answer | added | user133469 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 11:13 | comment | added | David Richerby | @SpehroPefhany Nobody outside North America has any idea what this baroque system means ("baroque" because you can't even compare the numbers, since the rating of a particular piece of paper depends on the standard sheet size, and different papers may have different standard sheet sizes). Everywhere else in the world uses mass per unit area, typically grams per square metre, which is independent of any idea of standard sheet size. (Ordinary copier paper is 80gsm, lighter-weight copier paper or note paper more like 70gsm; nice writing paper might be 110gsm.) | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 9:30 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @BlacklightShining - Yep, vellum. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 6:44 | comment | added | Blacklight Shining | @HotLicks You mean vellum, right? | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I don't think the pounds thing is very helpful except to those who are in the printing industry. I have exactly no idea what 9lb paper is | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @Random832 <sigh> And it's based on pre-trimmed paper or something like that. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 19:53 | answer | added | Nemo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | Random832 | @SpehroPefhany The 9lb basis Wikipedia quotes for "onionskin" paper is based on 17x22, though. (You can see it by doing the math yourself, or look at e.g. this page) - when given as "bible paper" essentially the same density is called 20-pound. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Random832 | @SpehroPefhany Note that the meaning is actually different for different types of paper - copy paper is measured by 17x22 sheets; book paper by 25x38 sheets, with the consequence that 20 pound copy paper is about the same density as 50 pound book paper. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | Beta | Technically, a page is a field of text, printed on one side of a piece of paper called a leaf. Your book has almost 350 very thin leaves. People often use "page" (incorrectly) for the paper, but the correct term persists in terms like "loose-leaf notebook" and "turn over a new leaf". | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 14:31 | vote | accept | eimyr | ||
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 13:27 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | In North America, a numerical weight in pounds would probably be widely understood. "Despite being printed on 9lb paper, this book is still two inches thick!". Ordinary photocopy paper is typically something like 20lb. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 12:42 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Velum, "bible paper". | |
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