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After a bit of back and forth with returning and then chatting with customer support I recently (today) learned of deckle edging (or rough cutting) with books. This is where the face of the pages is rendered with a rough cut and uneven line, instead of smoothed over.
I was quite surprised to further learn that its a higher grade of printing as a result of its appearance alluding to the older days of printing where the nature of printing resulted in this effect being the normal.
What I find most odd is that the effect when shown today alongside normal binding, printing, type font, formatting, etc.... on a modern book just looks odd. IT seems strange to only have one part mimic the old style and everything else to be modern.
However I'd be interested in your views on the deckle edge and on if you like or dislike it and what books you have with it.
For those who don't know about it Wiki has a good article here: Deckle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And here are some photos of deckle edged books:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2065_zps95c54829.jpg
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2064_zps28c0a881.jpg
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2063_zpsa0860bf3.jpg
I was quite surprised to further learn that its a higher grade of printing as a result of its appearance alluding to the older days of printing where the nature of printing resulted in this effect being the normal.
What I find most odd is that the effect when shown today alongside normal binding, printing, type font, formatting, etc.... on a modern book just looks odd. IT seems strange to only have one part mimic the old style and everything else to be modern.
However I'd be interested in your views on the deckle edge and on if you like or dislike it and what books you have with it.
For those who don't know about it Wiki has a good article here: Deckle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And here are some photos of deckle edged books:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2065_zps95c54829.jpg
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2064_zps28c0a881.jpg
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/overmind_2000/IMG_2063_zpsa0860bf3.jpg