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  • Checked October 2026

Book ASCII

Tap a book to copy every line of it; the first is a cover you can type a title on.

Book ASCII

.-.--------------. | | | | | YOUR WORDS | | | | | | ~*~ | | | | '-'--------------'Book cover to type on7 lines, 19 wideReady to copy

18 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 9

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How it works

Book ASCII pieces drawn for this page: 18 originals, with open books, a stack of three, a bookshelf, a spiral notebook, books between bookends and a cover for your own title.

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Book ASCII art, open or closed

Open book, front view has four lines of text on each page; Open book, curved pages arches up from the spine. Closed ones: Closed book, corner view with a label, Stack of three books and Bookshelf, two shelves, the tallest at nine lines.

Book and quill text art, and a cover to write on

Book and quill stands a quill pen in an ink pot beside an open book. On Book cover to type on, type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding.

Questions and answers

Is there book single line text art?

Three pieces: Open book on one line, 15 characters; Row of books, one line, eight spines in 17 characters; and Closed book on one line, 12 characters with the spine on the left.

Is there full book text art, cover and all?

Closed book, corner view is a whole thick book in eight lines, with a front label that says BOOK. Book lying flat, ribbon shows one from the side with a bookmark hanging out.

What is a quill?

A writing tool made from a molted flight feather of a large bird, by Wikipedia's Quill article. Book and quill draws one standing in an ink pot, five lines tall.

What do the spines say?

Three book spines reads ART, STORY and MATH, one letter to a line. The other spines are filled with a single character each: a number sign, an equals sign, a tilde or a colon.

All 18 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Book cover to type on A closed book seen from the front, the spine down the left side. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding. 7 lines, 19 wide.

One line 3

  • Closed book on one line A book lying flat, the spine on the left and the page edges along the row. 1 line, 12 wide.
  • Open book on one line Two pages of underscores falling away from a spine in the middle. 1 line, 15 wide.
  • Row of books, one line Eight spines standing side by side, four marks used twice over, each between two bars. 1 line, 17 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Books between bookends Six spines held upright between two triangular bookends. 3 lines, 20 wide.
  • Squash-proof book spines Four spines side by side, each filled with a different character. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof book stack Three books lying flat, the spines on alternate sides. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof open book Two arched pages meeting at a spine of doubled bars, with no space in it. 3 lines, 12 wide.
  • Tiny book Four lines: a closed book with the word BOOK on the front and the page edges at the right. 4 lines, 9 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 9

  • Book and quill An open book with a quill pen standing in an ink pot beside it. 5 lines, 32 wide.
  • Book lying flat, ribbon A closed book lying on its side with the end of a ribbon bookmark hanging out below. 5 lines, 24 wide.
  • Bookshelf, two shelves Two shelves of spines: one book leaning over on the top shelf and a round ornament on the lower one. 9 lines, 28 wide.
  • Closed book, corner view A thick book seen from a corner, with a label on the front that says BOOK. 8 lines, 22 wide.
  • Open book, curved pages The pages arch up from the spine like two hills, with three rows of tildes for the text on each. 7 lines, 31 wide.
  • Open book, front view Two pages with four lines of text on each, the spine down the middle. 6 lines, 31 wide.
  • Spiral notebook, lined A notebook with a row of rings along the top edge and four ruled lines. 7 lines, 18 wide.
  • Stack of three books Three books lying on top of each other, the smallest on top, spines on alternate sides. 7 lines, 25 wide.
  • Three book spines Three books standing upright, with ART, STORY and MATH written down their spines. 7 lines, 14 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 18 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Quill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill) says a quill is a large bird's molted flight feather made into a writing tool. No real book, title or author is drawn or named; the words on the spines are ART, STORY and MATH. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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