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Encyclopedia > Hardback

A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine.


Hardcover books are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers and glued spines. Hardcover books are also more expensive to manufacture and purchase. Hardcover books frequently come with artistic dust jackets. The hardcover edition of a book is typically released earlier than any paperback editions.


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sffworld.com - Hardback or Paperback? (1376 words)
The only times I will buy a hardback is if I can't wait for the paperback (A Feast for Crows will be a hardback) or one of my favorite authors starts a brand new series and I want to keep it uniform (Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle).
Hardbacks are prohibitively expensive, so heavy they make my arms ache, and too damned difficult to hide down the back of one's trousers when one is seeking a ten-minute escape to the toilet during a skull-numbingly boring period at work.
Hardbacks usually end up sitting on the floor and so it takes longer to read and finish.
sffworld.com - Paperback Vs. Hardback? (1040 words)
I like hardback books because the binding cracks when you first open it and you can tell it is new by that sound, but they are bulky and expensive usually, which is their main disadvantage.
I recently read a 1960 hardback copy of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and it felt almost like a newer book, but my dad has a copy of Lord of the Rings from back in the day that is paperback and he keeps it out of reach because it is starting to fall apart.
Hardbacks are good to have though, because they can last a lot longer than paperbacks and look nicer, but they just seem to be so darn cumbersome and expensive.
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