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US
/ˈpeɪpɝˌbæk/
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[ UK /pˈeɪpəbˌæk/ ]
[ UK /pˈeɪpəbˌæk/ ]
NOUN
- a book with paper covers
ADJECTIVE
- (of books) having a flexible binding
How To Use paperback In A Sentence
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- In August it'll come out in paperback, so it'll be repriced as much cheaper e-book.
- And this doesn't included the sixty billion paperbacks printed every year, half of which are pulped and set to Japan to make toilet paper.
- The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
- The machine, which On Demand describes as an "ATM for books", prints, binds and trims paperback books with four-colour covers, on demand and at point of sale. Publishing
- We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
- Many of them opened bistros or little restaurants with big ideas and some dog-eared paperbacks.
- I'll buy some paperbacks at the airport.
- Hits & Misses is an almost 500-page paperback about a softball team formed to save their school. Hits & Misses » Comics Worth Reading
- Is it asking too much for the paperback edition to at least acknowledge that there's been some change?