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Like many cafes in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the circa-1946 Café Giảng slots into the hectic, colorful streetscape like a narrow paperback on a library shelf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But what I think is more notable is how I do it: I read only hardcover or paperback books.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2026

It lands somewhere between Disney fairy tale, ’80s romance paperback art and old Hollywood glamour.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Think small, perishable, and plausibly ironic like a single excellent chocolate bar, a slim paperback with a clever premise, or a novelty that suggests taste rather than effort.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Babi sat at the foot of a thick-trunked acacia tree reading a paperback.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini