Notebook (paper)
A booklet (formed to be "stapled" in the 16th century) or fascicle consists of sheets of paper stapled together and usually an envelope attached to them.
History and types
Completely blank writing and sketch pads were meant originally to stapling, the term extended to printed publications lesser extent as brochures or magazines and stapled shaped deliveries , taken together, after complete appearance on behalf of the customer from bookbinding to a book could be committed. Derived from this, the pages of books and newspapers that lie one inside the other after folding and trimming a printed sheet are called a booklet.
Exercise books in the original sense are mainly used today as exercise books, sketch books, college pads and the like. Ä. spread. In most countries, exercise books are usually lightly lined horizontally to make it easier to hold the lines; So-called writing books for primary school lessons have rulings of four lines per line , which limit the middle lengths, ascenders and descenders of the letters. Exercise books for students in China are divided into rectangles accordingly. Arithmetic exercise books are - comparable to the Chinese exercise books - divided into squares with auxiliary lines to make arithmetic easier. Special music books for writing down musical notes consist of empty staves , some with auxiliary lines.
There are also a variety of exercise books for special tasks outside of school, such as B. for bookkeeping, which however has become much less important due to the use of computers .
The octave format of the notebooks was a common production format until the paper formats of the folded sheets were standardized. Today, an A6 booklet is considered an octave booklet.
Exercise book with writing exercises, 1929
Page from a biology notebook from 1944
See also
literature
- Hans-Dieter Kübler: Booklet / booklet. In: Basic knowledge of the media. Edited by Werner Faulstich . 5th edition. Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-3929-X , pp. 258-273.
- Rudolf Schenda : sheet and booklet. In: Reading, a manual. Reading material, readers and reading behavior, reading effects, reading education, reading culture. Edited by Alfred Clemens Baumgärtner. Verlag für Buchmarkt -forschung , Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-578-03493-2 , pp. 26–47.
- Horst Schiffler: Exercise books as historical sources using the example of the collection of exercise books in the Saarland School Museum . Saarland School Museum, Ottweiler ( online publication ).
Web links
- "Reichenau exercise book" from the 9th century (digitized version)
- Mathematics booklet, Elbing 1795 (digitized version)