hardbound

I mean, how many virtually identical hardbound books are there sitting on people's bookshelves...and they look beautiful instead of ugly.

You should also offer a printed version for those people who want a hardbound copy.

Have a look at SoftBound and HardBound for some of the current thinking in this area that scales to object level granularity.

Middle class people used to buy books for the parlour to show they were educated, often with out of copyright classics, hardbound.

Now they tend to cost the same or more than the hardbound edition.

But my experience is that there is something really, really different about having a laptop that does everything you need, and weighs less than a hardbound book.

I have also looked into abusing the on-demand book publishers to create notebooks, but it seems self-published hardbound pocket books are not a thing.

I have Volumes I, II, and III of his red hardbound books.

Also, typically glue bound along the top edge and having a solid backing, as if you took a hardbound book (of blank pages) and ripped off the front cover and spine.

It is great to be able to throw my computer into my bag and go out to work in the middle of a park or wherever; my computer plus my drawing tablet is only slightly more weight to haul then a hardbound sketchbook.

For every few Bible-believing Christians you find an atheist pseudo-intellectual clutching his hardbound copy of "The God Delusion".

Printed words are already becoming a luxury, with the decline in material and workmanship in modern hardbound "prestige" editions reflecting their place among the economy of aspirational, status- and status-anxiety-signaling goods.