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paper book

noun paper books

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, book.
  2. England A document prepared in English legal practice containing a record or summary of the pleadings.
  3. A traditional hardback or softback book, as opposed to an e-book "Instead of cases of books moldering away in warehouses, your inventory consists of a single digital file, which any "bookmaking" machine can use to crank out a paper book."
  4. dated A paperback book. Publishers of the paper books are uncertain whether their old reading public has tired of the motion picture or whether a new class of readers has arisen.

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@misc{paper_book_2026,
  title = {paper book},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paper%20book},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}