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Originally Posted by crich70
I've never been to one but I imagine newspaper morgues might have such books. They preserve the texts of old newspapers (pre-microfilm) in large over sized books.
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You know, I had forgotten about them. But I don't think that fully opened, the typical newspaper of today would come close to being six feet across.
Which brings up another point . . . . for the life of me, I don't see why more newspapers don't go to the tabloid format. It is far easier to manage, etc. The only thing that I can think of is that tabloids, in the U.S., at least, are associated with trash, sleaze, lies, etc.) and most newspapers don't want that association (even if those newspapers do, in fact, have a lot of trash, sleaze, lies, etc. ha).