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A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
"Then we'll buy the paperback when it comes out," she added.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The paperback rights for her second book, 1978’s Love Signs, were sold for $2.5 million, establishing an industry record at the time.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
The device, roughly the size of a paperback book, produces small amounts of power by capturing energy released as these microorganisms break down organic material in dirt.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Millie sits beside me, reading a paperback romance, and beside her sits Amanda, her feet bouncing as she drums her fingers on her thigh.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
For the next few months, I’m setting aside my beach bag’s slender paperbacks and picking up “Middlemarch.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some of the performers fans have travelled from other towns and cities to grab his old paperbacks, some of which contain annotations by Cave.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
The English-language books that are selling abroad are generally cheap paperbacks, printed by American and British publishers as export editions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
A short distance away is a shelf of vintage mystery paperbacks that, when pressed in the correct spots, opens onto a kind of grotto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The barkers were all interesting guys, poets manques, most of them, and spent their time off in City Lights Bookstore, leafing through New Directions paperbacks.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
