"यह किताब छोटी है।"

Translation: This book is short.

[jhwilliams]

How do you distinguish between a short book and a small book?

[Sarah_130408]

Short is generally used regarding height and small is used if the thing or person (especially a child) is short in all .
But in case of book , short is also used regarding the length of its contents.

For eg.
The tree is short
The seed is small/little .

If there is a mini book maybe created for joke , then you can use small.

In hindi chhota /chhote /chhoti is used for both small and short

Hope this helps.

[ph.WJhFPB]

वन टू का फोर

[Ringcycle]

Why couldn't this be This book is little?

[emrys29]

A lot of Hindi speakers, including me, won't use बड़ा/छोटा in this case. बड़ा/छोटा would be used if we mean to say large or little.

For short and long books, we would use मोटी(fat) and पतली(thin).
यह किताब मोटी है - This is a long/thick book.
यह किताब पतली है - This is a short/thin book.

[Raluca579012]

What word would you use to imply the book is short in content?

[ph.ptzC5Y]

It should be small as I know cause I'm an Indian

[ChampionsLakruv]

I have click

[ph.EUNSq5]

This Book is short.