<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/17/2003 4:15:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Danehog@aol.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Right, but I was thinking of the "pocket" format--not the "digest" one. Thanks anyway!<BR>
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so what are the acutal sizes of pocket vs digest ?<BR>
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I dont think that this is standard publisher talk - is it?<BR>
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Digest is called that because READERS DIGEST was the most common magazine using the format, Pocket books were originally called that, because CAPTN BILLYS WHIZ BANG was small enough to put in a (coat) pocket --- it is however the same size as what we know call digest. <BR>
the comic "POCKET COMICS" from the 1940s is bigger than an Archie Digest<BR>
Archie Digests are smaller than the old style USA Magna books, 6 x9, but are bigger than the Dark Horse Lone Wolf and Astro Boy 4 1/2 x 7. <BR>
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