Bleed
Illustrations extending beyond the format of the printed material, perhaps due to inaccurate trimming
Book binding
Connects the textblock to the boards or cover. Soft (V1, V2, V3 and V4), semi-hard (V5 and V6) and hard (V7, V8a, V8b, V8c and V9) bindings are used
Book board
The outer cover of the textblock comprised of sides and the spine: the boards themselves are faced with paper, cloth, leather or another material. …
Book sheets
Printed sheets of paper arranged in their proper order are called the book sheets.
Bookbinding
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Bookmark ribbon
A thin coloured ribbon affixed to the upper edge of the spine of the book block used to save a specific place in the book.
Braille
Braille is a system of characters for the visually impaired using a set of raised dots with regular spacing and configurations into different repeating groups