The Craft · No. 17·The small details·6 min read
Thumb indexing: a quiet aid for the daily reader
Those small half-moon cuts down the fore-edge are not decoration. They're a hundred-year-old usability feature — and a good test of finishing quality.
Forthcoming: macro of half-moon thumb-index tabs cut into the gilded fore-edge of a Bible, each labelled with a book name.
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