as in paperback
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Noun
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Like Galaxy of Books, inexpensive paperbacks are the meat and potatoes of neighborhood bookshops.—
Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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The woods and white musks remind me of cracking open a fresh new paperback novel.—
Noun
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While Another Roadside Attraction failed to garner much attention when it was first published in hardback, the paperback edition steadily became a word-of-mouth hit, especially on college campuses.—
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The few copies of her books that remained reached fantastic prices on the open market (a hardback first edition of Twice Lost costs $300 today), and so people who had copies, usually antiquarians or mystery enthusiasts, described the stories to those who couldn’t find or afford them.—
Noun
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
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The popular tome spent 13 straight weeks on the NY Times bestsellers list and debuted at No. 1 on Amazon, according to the streamer.—
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The list includes adaptations of Wilson tomes like Crooked Tree, IceFire and Second Fire.—
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“Softback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softback. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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