Bible paper

It's different in France, where definitive editions are printed on "Bible paper."

Bible paper is a thin grade of paper used for printing books which have a large number of pages.

Printed on Bible paper, and designed to replicate the traditional print reading experience in an edition not much bigger than an iPhone.

The Allied book paper lines then included grades from the thinnest bible paper to heavy book paper for novels.

The use of bible paper allows the books to contain a high number of pages; it is common for a Pléiade book to contain at least 1500.

Even French writers Mr. Shattuck presumably would admire, like Anatole France, oftentimes get treated to leather-bound books printed on Bible paper.

The following year, however, its remaining staff created an international edition of La Vanguardia printed in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Bible paper to facilitate its distribution abroad.

All the books offer a similar high quality appearance-leather bound, with gold lettering on the spine and bible paper, and they have a practical small format which makes them look like small Bibles.

"Bible paper" in Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology.

His personal investment career began when he took over the reins at his family-controlled conglomerate Bolloré, which deals in maritime freight and African trade, and paper manufacturing (cigarette and bible paper).

That Sade's work has been reprinted in the Pliade edition testifies less to his biblical status (a "leather-bound edition on Bible paper") than to the simple fact that he is widely recognized as a major French writer.

In Jones' Handbook of Modern Shop Practise- seven hundred and sixty pages, bible paper, limp morocco- he looked beside him to make certain that the positive priceless volume was still there- was a chapter on tests for the purity of chemicals.

Bible paper, which is wispier than most regular book paper, is especially difficult to produce using recycled waste, several publishers and paper mill executives said, and would probably be printed with a smaller percentage of recycled paper than are other books.

Its most prestigious guidebooks are the "Guide Rosse" (not to be confused with the Michelin Red Guides), which cover Italy in 23 highly detailed volumes printed on bible paper; the TCI also produces a wide variety of other guides to Italy.