The area where the inside margins of adjoining pages of a book meet is called the gutter.
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Adjacent inner margins of facing pages when book is open.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
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Can also refer to the outer indentation that is created by the joining of the boards and spine.
This in contrast to a book quarter bound which has a spine covered in one material and the boards covered in another.
The inner margin of the leaves of a bound book.
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For obvious reasons the gutter must always be wide enough to permit the innermost text to be read easily when the book is bound.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.