Help talk:Using Worldcat data

Re: "19cm" is either a small tp/hc or a British pb, which tend to be a bit taller than US/Canadian ones. I think this is seriously misleading about British paperbacks: 17.5cm is a fairly standard British paperback, 19cm+ puts it firmly into Trade Paperback size. I know the Worldcat records round it to nearest centimetre, and Amazon UK are ridiculously precise on millimetre measurements, and the definition of trade paperback versus mass-market paperback doesn't really apply in the UK (except on size categorisation, which is all WE are really using it for) - but putting all Worldcat 19cm British paperbacks into "pb" category would frankly be WRONG. If people need to guess about British paperbacks from secondary sources, I'd say 18cm and below - "pb". 19cm and above - "tp". BLongley 23:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I borrowed that paragaph from Help:How to parse data in library catalogs. It was, according to the history, entered by User:Ahasuerus on 21 February 2008. I have no personal expertise with UK paperbacks, and have no objection if the section is re-writen by anyone who does have such expertise. -DES ^Talk 00:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

By the way, there are also the new "Reading size" extra tall paperbacks in the US, distributed in supermarkets and other mass-market outlouts. They have the same width as a normal MMPB, but a couple of inches of additional height, i think -- i haven't measured. personally i hate this format, but books are being published in it -- not much science fiction that I hav seen, but at least some horror ("oh, the horror" ;) ) -DES ^Talk 00:17, 1 June 2008 (UTC)