Pocketbook may refer to:
Pouch or bag
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Coin purse
A purse or pouch (from the Latin , which in turn, is from the Greek , ''býrsa'', oxhide), sometimes called coin purse for clarity, is a small money bag or pouch, made for carrying coins. In most Commonwealth countries it is known simply as a pur ...
, a small money bag or pouch, made for carrying coins
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Handbag
A handbag, commonly known as a purse in North American English, is a handled medium-to-large bag used to carry personal items. It has also been called a pocketbook in parts of the U.S.
Terminology
The term "purse" originally referred to a smal ...
, a large bag for carrying personal items, also known as a purse.
Art, entertainment, media
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notebook
A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling or other writing, drawing, or scrapbooking and more.
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(in British English), as carried by people such as police officers for keeping records.
* "Pocketbook", by Meshell Ndegeocello from ''
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape'' (2002)
* "Pocketbook", by Jennifer Hudson from
''Jennifer Hudson'' (2009)
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, ...
, a type of book binding often referred to as a "pocket book"
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Pocket edition
A pocket edition is a small-sized copy of a book intended to fit in one's pocket. Small, pocket-sized variations of books have existed from early times. For example, the early 8th-century gospel book known as the St Cuthbert Gospel has a page ...
, an abridged edition of a book or a small-size book made to be carried in the pocket
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Pocketbook (application), a Sydney-based free budget planner and personal finance app
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Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
History
Pocket Books produced the first Paperback#Mass market paperback, mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and ...
, a division of
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group US ...
that primarily publishes
paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, ...
books
Brands and companies
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PocketBook International
PocketBook is a multinational company which produces e-book readers based on E Ink technology (an electronic paper technology) under the ''PocketBook'' brand. The company was founded in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and its headquarters were shifted t ...
, a maker of PocketBook brand e-book readers and tablet computers, and publisher of BookLand ebooks
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Acorn Pocket Book
See also
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Pamphlet
A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a Hardcover, hard cover or Bookbinding, binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a ''leaflet'' ...
, an unbound book historically known in England as a 'pocket book'
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