paper book
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, book.
noun
A traditional hardback or softback book, as opposed to an e-book
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- ""The evidence strongly indicates that libraries and end users expect e-books to have the same functionalities of the paper book, and yet do much more.""
- ""The link with the Internet disrupts the concentration that the paper book facilitates.""
- "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."
- "Even more important to those promoting paper books was the stark fact that there were not enough book stores to produce an adequate volume of sales to sustain quarter books."
- "The ad—the first the department ran in more than three years—was inserted after the department had enlarged its space, using the additional area for paper books."