Talk:Accordion book

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Leporello

This seems quite similar to what's known in Europe as Leporello. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:01, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Folding-book manuscript

I believe these two overview-style articles only exist separately as a WP:POVFORK. A merge would not cause any article-size or weighting problems. I suggest Folding-book manuscript as the merge-to, as the name is not a Western aphorism. chickenpox4dinner (talk) 21:40, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by aphorism here? In either case, I'm not sure "Accordion book" is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, perhaps it should be merged the other way. I have never heard of the phrase "accordion book" in my Southeast Asia studies and when this popped up I assumed it was some style of book from Europe because of the word "accordion". EmeraldRange (talk/contribs) 23:23, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EmeraldRange I think the word I was looking for was anachronism, but either way, we're on the same page - accordion book is not a useful or accurate term, and my suggestion is to merge this page to folding-book manuscript.

Per your studies, would you say there is any precedence for a separation between Chinese-Japanese-Korean folding manuscripts and SE Asian ones, as these articles being separate suggests? chickenpox4dinner (talk) 23:44, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my bad I misread your initial suggestion. I would not say that these two are substantially different to warrant a separate article. Both are based on historical developments from Buddhist literature and arts, before developing some secular uses in the early modern period. From a cursory google scholar search, sources dating back to at least the 1970s discuss the "accordion" style folding book in the context of East Asian studies, but the main results I see do not seem to indicate an overwhelming preference for the phrase accordion book. Furthermore, the folding-book manuscript article is already a general term for various types of books that, in the literature, are called by their national terms (e.g. parabaik, samut, etc.)

That is to say, support merge to folding-book manuscript.EmeraldRange (talk/contribs) 00:27, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]