What does "book-length" mean? No dictionary online offers the definition

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I've checked it out in http://onelook.com/
It is not there (or only one dictionary "offers" an empty definition).

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87. Blair et al., 2005. The first book-length treatment of psychopathy appears to be Cleckley's The Mask of Sanity. While it is currently out of print, this book is still widely referenced and much revered. It is worth reading, if only for the author's highly(and often inadvertently) amusing prose. Hare, 1999, Blair et al., 2005, and Babiak & Hare, 2006, provide more recent book-length discussions of the disorder.

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@oristarA,

This thread has been ignored for so long.

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@oristarA,

Book-length means the length of a book.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

Book-length means the length of a book.

Can a treatment be book-length? Does length here refer to the richness of the content of a book? A book can be very thin after all.

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@oristarA,

It is the subject of psychopathy that is receiving the treatment.

A "book-length treatment" is in contrast to a paper or an article. Cleckey's book was the first thing written about psychopathy that that was long enough to be a book.

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Cool.
Thank you both.

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