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Noun
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When Catalina goes into the kitchen to refill her calabash, Frances grabs the box of Thompson paperbacks and makes a run for Ray at the restaurant.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025 -
There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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The hardcover edition, priced at $100, is now available at stores.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
6 Oct. 2025
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There will be books of all kinds, hardcover, paperback, fiction and non-fiction.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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Head over to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards site to see all the winners and runners-up, and pre-order a hardback book with the top entries at $70.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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The set, remixed and expanded across multiple formats, will include a 5LP vinyl box set as well as a 4-CD box set, with both including a Blu-ray disc, replica tour poster and 100-page hardback book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton and exclusive photos from the album session and tour.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
Fred Turner,
Harper's magazine,
10 Jan. 2019
Noun
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The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Swiss watchmaker continued to celebrate its 150th anniversary, releasing a 600-page tome titled The Watch—Stories and Savoir Faire, as well as the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph RD#5.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
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Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Softback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softback. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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