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A Limited Edition for the 21st Edition of
The Tournament of Books
To Benefit Unite Against Book Bans
2025 Tournament of Books Rooster Book 2025 Graph 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 21st 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 Memo Books with the ToB mascot on the cover. Inside you’ll find 48 pages of graph paper along with a checklist of the tournament books on the back cover.
Buy one or more of these for $5 each and we’ll donate the profits to the American Library Association’s Unite Against Book Bans, which empowers people everywhere to stand up in the fight against censorship. Give us a hand please.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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Proudly printed by the good people of Team Concept Printing, Carol Stream, Ill.
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Cover: Neenah Environment 80#C “Grocer Kraft,” with a thick, brute force, 1-color application of “Dachshund Nose Black” soy-based Toyo ink.
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Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “White,” with a fine, 1-color application of “Double Knee Duck Canvas Light Brown” soy-based Superior ink.
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Cover and innards printed on aKomori GL 640L six-color UV printing press.
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Bound by Horizon SPF-200L “Bookletmaster” with dual 20-pocket feeder towers, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
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Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a CRC round-corner machine.
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Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
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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.
