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A Special Limited Edition for 202I
Tournament of Books
To Benefit 826 National – You Know, for Kids
2021 Tournament of Books Rooster Book 2021 Ruled Paper
These Pair Nicely
To the Brackets, Once Again
Once again, we’re the title sponsor of The Morning News Tournament of Books that runs during March. We’re making our way through the books in this, the 17th edition of this literary cage-match, and hope you are too.
From TMN: “In case you’re new to all this, the ToB is an annual springtime event here at The Morning News, where a group of the best works of fiction from last year enter a March Madness-style battle royale. In March, these novels will be seeded and paired off in an NCAA Tournament-like bracket. For each pairing, one of our esteemed judges will read both novels and advance one, with a transparent explanation of how they made their decision.”
You can find the competing books and judges here and also, check this Brief History of the Tournament of Books.
A Little Help Please
We’ve made a small batch of sweet kraft Memo Books with the ToB mascot on the cover. Inside you'll find 48 pages of ruled paper along with a checklist of the tournament books on the inside back cover.
Buy one or more of these for $5 each and we’ll donate all the profits to 826 National, a nine-chapter network that provides under-resourced students, ages 6-18 with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills.
Over that past few years we have raised tens of thousands of dollars for 826. Let's keep it rolling together.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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Proudly printed by the good people of Lake County Press, Inc., Waukegan, Ill.
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Cover: French Dur-O-Tone 80#C “Packing Brown Wrap,” with a thick, brute force, 5-color application of process and white “Pro-Print” digital inks.
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Innards: Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of Pantone Cool Gray 2 soy-based Toyo ink.
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Cover printed on a Ricoh C7100SX 5-station color printer. Innards printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 40" 4-color printing press.
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Bound with a Heidelberg Stitchmaster ST 270 5-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder/scorer & Rima RS 10S in-line stacker.
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Corners precisely rounded to 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
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Ruled lines: 1/4" (6.4mm).
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Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm x 140mm).
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FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
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All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
