Definition of "hardbacked" []

• Having a solid binding; hardback. (adjective)
• Having a hard back. (adjective)

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• "Through the stuttering doors of the other hall lurks a gathering of spare souls who saved for hardbacked notebooks and empty time to be filled with fictions."
• "For Bittman fans, it's a good approach to a cookbook: an enormous hardbacked monster of a book, 1000 recipes from everywhere, and especially useful if you've got ingredients but no specific direction you want to go."
• "Seeing the entire universes Jack Kirby created for his characters to exist inlike in the "Fourth World" books, Kamandi, The Demon, OMAC, Machine Man, The Eternals..., all by himself in a tiny little windowless studio sitting in a stiff hardbacked chair, I can only imagine what an Aquaman comic--with his attendant built-in fantasy world setting of Atlantis--written and drawn by Kirby might have looked like."