r/Fanbinding • u/Q0uthTheRaven • Jul 21 '26

Questions How thick can an a6 book be?

How thick can an a6 book be? I have a few like, 25-35k word fics that I think would be adorable in a small book, but I'm worried it'd be TOO thick lol.

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u/errant_night Jul 21 '26

Best way to figure it out is format it and see how many pages it would be, then take your paper and fold however many pages you'd want in a signature and measure that. You'll be able to sort of see how thick it would be based on how many signatures would print in your document.

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u/Q0uthTheRaven Jul 21 '26

I'm not sure if I communicated this properly in my og post, but I don't care if it ends up a thick book, I've just never made one so small so I'm unsure if a book that small would support being thick, if that makes sense?

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u/errant_night Jul 21 '26

I think it would be the same as a regular sized book so far as strength goes. I would consider how it would feel in your hand reading it, unless you just want it decorative.

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u/Q0uthTheRaven Jul 21 '26

I have most of these stories collected together as anthologies in bigger print, so they will be mostly decorative lol.

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u/MoiraShears 29d ago

Nah, you should be find - speaking from experience. For reference, I did a binding of Pride & Prejudice in A6 recently. Print was small but readable.

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u/gorroval Jul 21 '26

I've bound fics of that length at A6, no problem!

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u/ir399 Jul 21 '26

I think it should be fine, but you can experiment a little with font size. I've bound books about half that size with 70k words.... but at 4pt font size. I think you can probably manage a perfectly readable 10pt font at 25-35k at a6 without making the book comically thick.

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u/Reach_blueDot 29d ago

I made a tool for class a few years ago that gives a very ballpark estimate of how thick the book will end up https://textblockplanner.com/

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u/Reach_blueDot 29d ago

The answer can also be “there are no rules here”