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book format

size of a book, manuscript, or sheet of paper resulting from folding standard sheets into multiple pages
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book format

Summary

book format ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (376 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • book format is a type of format[2].
  • book format is a type of size[3].
  • book format is a type of form factor[4].
  • book format is a type of physical media format[5].
  • book format's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Book formats[6].
  • book format's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • book format's different from is recorded as book size[8].
  • book format's different from is recorded as type of book[9].
  • book format's different from is recorded as book form[10].
  • book format's different from is recorded as book distribution format[11].
  • book format's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Use for traditional sizes folio, quarto, octavo, etc.'}[12].
  • book format's exact match is recorded as http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/BookFormat[13].
  • book format's exact match is recorded as http://rdvocab.info/Elements/bookFormat[14].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include format[2], size[3], form factor[4], and physical media format[5].

Why It Matters

book format ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (376 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

book

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → book size, type of book, book form +1
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Topic's main category → Category:Book formats
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P910]]: [[Q16660524]], Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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