Digest Size

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In prozines, digest refers to a physical size, about 5½ x 8¼ inches, named after the below mentioned Reader's Digest – more fannishly, it is the size of Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Half-sized fmz were also sometimes called digest-size.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
DIGEST SIZE among fanzines is standard size folded the short way of the paper. For proz, it's the size of the eponymic Reader's Digest.

See also: Digest for digesting fanzines and Format for sizes in general.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction discusses pro digest sizes in much more detail, comparing it with pulp and others.


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