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Recent Examples of softcover
The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for softcover
Noun
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The 336-page hardcover book features 300 color illustrations and retails for $75.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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There is also a hardcover book packed with unseen photographs, a comic book tour programme, and a Knebworth concert poster.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Viking continued its publishing of Portables well into the late twentieth century, and they are still actively published as paperbacks by Penguin Classics; most recently, The Portable Feminist Reader, edited by Roxane Gay, hit the paperback bestseller list when it was published in March 2025.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Dell Books published it as a 64-page paperback with a cover the exact shade of pink of a can of Tab diet soda.—
Mimi Pond,
People.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The revision, which would be not a hardback book but an online-only edition, requiring a subscription, was expected to take decades.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 2003-2010 by Stuart Maine (2025) Bitmap Books has a history of publishing rich and glossy hardback books about video games and Hurt Me Plenty is no different.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 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
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“Softcover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softcover. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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