Board Book
A board book is a type of book published on a hard recycled cardboard. This cardboard is used for the cover as well as the pages, unlike a typical book with cardboard binding and paper pages, and is intended to be more durable. Books intended for small children to use and play with, as well as luxurious editions of regular books, are often boarded. Different materials are used for board books. The highest quality, and most expensive, is "white board", or "white art board", which essentially is pressed cardboard, with a white laminated surface, and white fibers all the way through. "Gray board" is similar, but contains gray fibers in the middle of it. You can probably find samples of both in the board book section of a large bookstore--look at the edges of the board books and you'll see the difference. Sometimes, card stock, which is not as thick and feels very much like the material from which playing cards are made, is used to make board books, but this is not really "board".
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