Digest size
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Digest size is a standard magazine size, smaller than a conventional bedsheet size magazine but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches.
The most famous digest sized magazine is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Reader's Digest, for which the size appears to have been named. TV Guide also used the format.
Since the 1950s it has also been used by several science fiction magazines including:
- New Worlds
- Science Fantasy
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Galaxy Science Fiction
- Astounding (later Analog)
- Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
The manga graphic novel format is similar to digest size, although slightly narrower and generally thicker.
The A5 paper size used by many UK fanzines is slightly wider and taller than digest size.
This size is less popular now than it once was; in 2005, TV Guide dropped it in favor of the larger letter-size format, and the Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines switched to a format slightly larger than digest size several years earlier. The main publications remaining in digest size now are Reader's Digest and some Archie comics digests, though it is possible more publications may emerge to seek the popular supermarket checkout space vacated by TV Guide.
