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soft·cov·er

 (sôft′kŭv′ər, sŏft′-)
adj.
Not bound between hard covers: a softcover edition of a novel.
n.
A softcover book.
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User can select between vertical, square, and horizontal formats and order printed copies as softcover or hardcover books.
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Intended for dragon lovers age eight to eighty, Model Masters Dragons is an inexpensive kit consisting of four plastic dragon figures, each of which is a couple inches long or tall; a paintbrush; six little pots of paint (yellow, black, blue, green, white, and red--they can be mixed to produce other colors); two little pots of glaze; and a 32-page, full-color softcover book.
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In Play by Play: Tales From a Sports Broadcaster Insider (Taylor Trade, 240 pages, softcover, $16.95, 978-1-58979-224-1), Mercer goes on to describe his rodeo of broadcasting engagements: sometimes the field had grass, sometimes not, sometimes a phone, sometimes the announcer booth was a bucket full of pigeon poo.
Written and illustrated by Greg Budig, I Hear the Wind is a beautiful black-and-white softcover picturebook about the voice of the night wind, sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce, as heard by a young child.
McMillan 308 pages; softcover John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, N.J., 2006