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Robert McCrum
The Observer, Saturday 7 January 2012

One unintended consequence of this irreversible trend [e-books] has been to give the hardback a new lease of life.[…] Not since the palmy days of late-Victorian publishing has so much care and attention been lavished on the hardback. Go into any bookshop now and you will find piles of brand-new hardbacks sporting coloured endpapers, scarlet silk bookmarks, heavy, deckle-edged paper and elaborate laminated boards.

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