所谓短册,是指过去日本人用来写和歌或俳句等的一种窄长条厚纸。两年前,我在日本进修时,常听说“短册”这个词,但开始时我不知道短册在出版界为何物。有一天,我与讲谈社的一位部长一起到池袋的一家书店参观,发现陈列在书架上的每一本书里都夹有一张细长的厚纸。当我询问那位部长为何所有书里都要夹上一张这样的纸条时,他告诉我说,“这就是短册”。接着他向我详细地介绍了短册的作用。 The so-called short book, refers to the Japanese people used to write songs and haiku narrow strips of thick paper. Two years ago, when I was in Japan, I often heard the word “short book”, but at the beginning I did not know what it was in the press. One day I went to a bookshop in Ikebukuro with a minister of the Kodanshop and found that there was a slender thick paper in every book on the bookshelf. When I asked the minister why there was one such note in all the books, he told me, “This is a short book.” Then he introduced to me in detail the role of short book.