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Meanings of paperback in English

Portuguese
brochura
Catalan
llibre de butxaca
Spanish
encuadernación en rústica

A book with paper covers.

brochura

(Of books) having a flexible binding.

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Examples for "softback"
Examples for "softback"
1
The Birds of Britain and Europe by Heinsel, Fitter and Parslow is a Collins publication, softback.
The Irish Times
2
All this comes back when a friend gives a Christmas present of a small, softback book Nature Trails, volume one, by Richard Williamson.
The Irish Times
3
These Friar's Bush productions have been pictorial, mostly in small softbacks of about 80 pages; pictures and captions, and an introduction.
The Irish Times
1
Elliot stood in the doorway, a paperback book in one hand.
The Perfectionists
2
The waitress backed away to a corner and picked up a paperback book.
Nothing to lose
3
The thing was a little bit bigger than a paperback book.
End of Watch
4
David sat reading a paperback book of T. S. Eliot.
Valis
5
Then I switch on the reading light, take out a paperback book, and start reading.
Kafka on the Shore
1
They'll turn up the fellow's packsack or a paper-back book all swollen and bleached out by the rain or snow, or some such.
Night Shift
2
Wilson bought an armful of magazines and a couple of paper-backed books.
White Hunter, Black Heart
3
Mary took a paper-backed book from the table and came over to the fireplace.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
4
A small paper-backed book is now lying upon my desk.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
1
All this comes back when a friend gives a Christmas present of a small, softback book Nature Trails, volume one, by Richard Williamson.
The Irish Times
1
Another was that women should wear velvet-covered steel collars and, something far nastier, a soft-covered collar with
The Complete Jack the Ripper
Usage of paperback in English
1
The paperback version in South Africa is now in its second printing.
The South African
2
To maintain profits hardcover houses have involved themselves directly in paperback publishing.
The new yorker
3
A paperback collection of the best posts was published in March 2010.
The Guardian
4
The Paperwhite is therefore the standard paperback to the Oasis's leather-bound edition.
The Guardian
5
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Vintage trade paperback as follows:
Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
6
Most of Hazlitt's work is out of print, or unavailable in paperback.
The Guardian
7
The paperback of that version stayed in print for about sixteen years.
The Forever War
8
He explores cultural history, science, and tech, plus the odd paperback thriller.
Wired
9
The paperback edition was released in 2005 and is available at Amazon.com.
Wired
10
In his other hand is a paperback, a John Le Carré thriller.
Those who save us
11
I finished up my paperback and tossed it into the DONE box.
Storm front
12
Bettie stooped suddenly, to pick up an open paperback from a chair.
The unnatural inquirer
13
Some words on the back of a slim paperback caught my eye.
The Irish Times
14
A neo-Nazi in Ukraine is reproducing the document in paperback… Video, Audio
Radio NZ
15
Now Gwen wished she had bought a paperback at the airport bookstore.
The soul catcher
16
In the meantime, she'd brought an old paperback to keep her company.
The nightmarys
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