Definition of "hardbacks" []

• Plural form of hardback. (noun)

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• "I would like to tell Mr. Modesitt that I have graduated from reading used copies of his paperbacks, to borrowing the hardbacks from the library, to buying new hardbacks as they are published."
• "Anyway, we also scored some good hardbacks from the cheap tables: Clive Barker's Mister B."
• "I spent a couple of hours today sorting out my book-shelves – the ones holding the hardbacks, that is."