Folio

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Folio may refer to:

  • In bookbinding,
    • A sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex.
    • Mainly for manuscripts, a leaf (ie two pages). Manuscript pages are often traditionally physically marked with numbers, and referred to, by folio number, with "recto" for the first side and "verso" for the second - so "f.3v" would be "page 6" in a conventional count.
    • Book size, or Paper size, where folio is a book bound from folio sheets, usually 15" (38,1 cm) tall or more.
    • A book printed on folio pages, such as the First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays
  • Folio (typeface), a sans-serif typeface
  • Folio Society, publishers of fine illustrated books
  • Folio Weekly, a newspaper published in Florida and Georgia
  • FOLIO:, a monthly magazine covering the publishing industry.
  • Folio:, A new wave band from Los Angeles California.
  • The Palm Foleo, a subnotebook device
  • A term used in the hotel industry to describe a list of room charges for a guest (synonymous to an invoice or bill)
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