The pages of these books are accordion-ed like a ream of computer printer paper but without the perforations.
Running the length of each folded seam are two thin magnetic strips which hold the pages to one another rather than a fold.
The binding for these books are removable, can be slid onto either side, and contain a ferromagnetic strip which holds the pages to the spine.

Both sides of the book are front cover pages but one side is written upside down. By changing the binding from one side to the other, two separate books are contained in the same tome with one being inside the other.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 03 2016

[fries], that's an awesome idea - I love the combination of modern and old school analog tech ... _27TIS_20A_20read
[normzone, Dec 04 2016]

Accordion binding http://www.designsp...accordion-book.html
[pocmloc, Dec 05 2016]

The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story https://www.youtube...watch?v=LPP7f5DoaGg
No need to change the binding or one story being upside down. Video shows the book's mechanism. [tatterdemalion, Dec 05 2016]

Tête-bêche books make a speculative return https://www.theguar...-speculative-return
[not_morrison_rm, Dec 05 2016]

Dos-à-dos binding https://en.wikipedi...-%C3%A0-dos_binding
[not_morrison_rm, Dec 05 2016]

Tet beach
-- not_morrison_rm, Dec 03 2016


m'what?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 03 2016


m~nork! +
-- xenzag, Dec 03 2016


Sorry, I have a cold..Tête-bêche or possibly dos-a-dos <sneezes again>
-- not_morrison_rm, Dec 04 2016


brilliant!
-- sninctown, Dec 04 2016


I went 47 years without knowing those words.
Now I'm going to see them everywhere.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 05 2016


Of course, during the Tête Offensive of '68...nope it's not really working...
-- not_morrison_rm, Dec 05 2016



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