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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4828046, member: 5833&quot;]Someone will come along with more technical knowledge, but this used to be common.&nbsp; Smaller pages were made by folding large sheets of paper; the more times folded, the smaller the pages.&nbsp; If you look up bookbinding terms such as folio, quarto, octavo &amp; signature, you will get the idea.&nbsp; Readers had an implement, very much like a letter opener, called in English a paper knife.&nbsp; You can tell just how much of a book ever got read by how many of the pages have been cut open.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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