[B-Greek] OT What's it called?

John McChesney-Young panis at pacbell.net
Fri Jun 9 17:21:47 EDT 2006


"CSharp Online Editor" <editor at csharp-online.net> asked:

>What is the proper name of that little satin ribbon attached to the book
>spine and used for a bookmark?

The usual technical term is a "register." See:

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2816.html

A few alternative names can be found here:

http://experts.about.com/q/Printing-Bookbinding-Paper-1463/ribbon-bookmark.htm

There was some discussion of this on the old Stumpers-l (a list for 
difficult reference questions, replaced by the Project Wombat list).

http://tinyurl.com/z3bwu (use Google cache for the hits; the 
transition from the old list to the new one wasn't as smooth as might 
have been hoped)

John
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