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French: dos carré, cousu, collé, broché

English translation: square back, sewn, pasted, stitched







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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
French term or phrase:dos carré, cousu, collé, broché
English translation:square back, sewn, pasted, stitched
Entered by:Sylvie Pelissier
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Printing & Publishing / edition
French term or phrase: dos carré, cousu, collé, broché
format d'un guide
Sylvie Pelissier
France
Clarification request(s) and response
Hacene: 6:31pm May 2, 2004: not enough context to know what you are referring to but check this, you might find your answer: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~typo/glossary/index.htm -

square back, sewn, pasted, stitched
Explanation:
like a book cover.
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paleozon
United States
Note from asker to answerer
many thanks
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3square back, sewn, pasted, stitchedpaleozon
5Square back
GWC- Claire
3 +1perfect-bound, sewn, glued, stitched
Jean-Luc Dumont


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
dos carré, cousu, collé, broché square back, sewn, pasted, stitched

Explanation:
like a book cover.

paleozon
United States
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 3
Note from asker to answerer
many thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
21 mins
  -> Thanks Vicky

agree Laura Robertson
40 mins
  -> Merci bcp

agree Graham macLachlan: sounds like it
47 mins
  -> I thought so too.

neutral Hacene: that's very high a level of confidence especially when you cannot back up your argument and that I can see at least 1 incorrect term. check http://home.vicnet.net.au/~typo/glossary/index.htm
1 hr
  -> What term is incorrect? Can you tell me? ...

disagree zaphod: Yeah, Square back It's Perfect bound
2 hrs
  -> You wrote another variant of the same thing, so why disagree?

agree GWC- Claire: additional reference provided below
3 hrs
  -> Thanks for the details.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dos carré, cousu, collé, broché perfect-bound, sewn, glued, stitched

Explanation:
or perfect-bound, sewn and stitched

perfect binding = adhesive bind = square back (hard cover)

depending on your context (maigre) collé may be redundant - for dos carré is collé laready = adhesive or perfect-bound or square-back

Maping Co - [ Translate this page ]... La reliure en dos carré collé ou "Perfect Binding" utilise une couverture continue pour l'avant, le dos et l'arrière du livre. ...
www.maping.com/french/Produits/ prod_perfect_binding.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

La reliure en dos carré collé ou "Perfect Binding" utilise une couverture continue pour l'avant, le dos et l'arrière du livre. ...
www.maping.com/french/Produits/ prod_perfect_binding.html - 13k -

Binding and Covering... Adhesive binding, also known as perfect binding, is commonly used to produce paperbacks (square-back books with a wraparound paper cover). ...

see that link:
www.techsolve.org/p2iris/printing/2325-s.htm -


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. Hardcover books are typically of octavo size or larger. Unusually large and heavy books are sometimes bound with wire or cable.
A paperback book consists of a number of signatures or individual leaves between covers of much heavier paper, glued together at the spine with a strong flexible glue; this is sometimes called perfect binding. Mass market paperbacks and pulp paperbacks are small (16mo size), cheaply made and often fall apart after much handling or several years. Trade paperbacks are more sturdily made, usually larger, and more expensive.


A cardboard article looks like a hardbound book at first sight, but it is really a paperback with hard covers. It is not as durable as a real hardbound; often the binding will fall apart after a little use.


A sewn book is constructed in the same way as a hardbound book, except that it lacks the hard covers. The binding is as durable as a hardbound book.






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. Hardcover books are typically of octavo size or larger. Unusually large and heavy books are sometimes bound with wire or cable.
A paperback book consists of a number of signatures or individual leaves between covers of much heavier paper, glued together at the spine with a strong flexible glue; this is sometimes called perfect binding. Mass market paperbacks and pulp paperbacks are small (16mo size), cheaply made and often fall apart after much handling or several years. Trade paperbacks are more sturdily made, usually larger, and more expensive.


A cardboard article looks like a hardbound book at first sight, but it is really a paperback with hard covers. It is not as durable as a real hardbound; often the binding will fall apart after a little use.


A sewn book is constructed in the same way as a hardbound book, except that it lacks the hard covers. The binding is as durable as a hardbound book.

Jean-Luc Dumont
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree zaphod: Thank you. Someone knows what perfect binding is!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Square back

Explanation:
Square back When the book has not been tie up with a rounded back
Dos carré Rechte rug
http://www.tangheprinting.com/en/customersupport/glossary.ht...
and
http://www.tradulex.net/Glossaries03/tangheEn.htm



GWC- Claire
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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