The index includes authors ranging from Edward Lear (mentioned in " Paperback Writer" ) to Rabindranath Tagore (who inspired " Pipes of Peace" ).

索引涵盖从爱德华·李尔（《平装书作家》中引用）到拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔（他启发《言归于好》的创作）等作家。

So, in the 15th century a library can be 30 manuscripts painfully put together during the course of a lifetime, or it can be two shelves of paperbacks in your home.

在15世纪，图书馆可以是一生中辛苦整理的30份手稿，也可以是家里的两架平装书。

So, Allen Lane founded Penguin Books, and the paperback was a big hit.

于是，艾伦·莱恩创办企鹅出版社，而出版社发行的平装书系列大受欢迎。

The paperback rights were sold for 400,000 dollars.

平装书的版权以40万美元的价格售出。

And thanks to the Kindle, I've managed to read like hundreds of more books than I would have done otherwise if I had to carry physical paperbacks around.

多亏 Kindle，比起需要随身携带实体平装书，我已经多读大概几百本书。

" I want you to take this, " he said quietly, thrusting a badly wrapped package roughly the size of a paperback book into Harry's hands.

“你带上这个。”他悄悄地说，塞给哈利一个包得很不像样的、平装书大小的东西。

For the purist, the only way to digest a good story is with a paperback or hardback book.

对于正统主义者来说，阅读一个好故事的唯一方法是用平装书或精装书。

As a result, Vonnegut's work was published in paperback and ignored by critics for several years.

因此，冯内古特的作品出版在平装书中，受到评论家的忽视。

But paperback books and private collections are only part of the story. You may not believe it, but libraries are places of power!

但平装书和私人藏书只是图书馆故事的一部。图书馆还是权力之地，你可能不相信这点！

Last year, some 202 million paperbacks and hardbacks were sold, and the publishing industry hopes this trend will continue now that people have got into the habit of reading more.

去年，平装书和精装书共售出 2.02 亿本，出版业希望这一趋势能够持续下去，因为人们已经养成阅读更多的习惯。

Andrew defines a library as any collection of books someone has intentionally built up. This could be as simple as a few paperbacks, cheap books with a cover made of thick paper.

安德鲁将图书馆定义为某人有意建立的藏书。可以是简简单单的几本平装书，即封面是厚纸的廉价书籍。

I'll get some paperbacks in the airport.

我会在机场买些平装书。

The hardbacks are on the top shelves and the paperbacks on the bottom ones.

精装书在最上面的书架上，平装书在最下面的书架上。

They said paperbacks weren’t just for “sex, sadism and the smoking gun.”

他们说平装书不仅仅是为“性、虐待狂和确凿的证据”。

Paperback books, the ones with floppy covers, are glued together to the cover.

平装书，那些封面可以弯曲的书，是通过胶水将书页固定到封面上的。

So I have the paperback and it looks like it's from the 1800s.

所以我手头这本平装书，看上去像是19世纪的产物。

The paperback is half the price of my last book on Amazon.

这本平装书在亚马逊上的价格是我上一本书的一半。

Fun tip, avoid paperbacks if you want that extra challenge.

有趣的小提示：如果你想增加难度，就避开平装书。

I read this paperback book on the bus.

我在公共汽车上读这本平装书。

If the last romance novel you looked at was a paperback at your local supermarket with a woman and a shirtless man embracing on the cover, well, fetch your smelling salts, because things have really changed in the last couple of decades.

如果你上次看的浪漫小说还是你当地超市里的平装书， 封面上是一个女人和一个没穿衬衫的男人在拥抱，那你可得准备好鼻烟瓶， 因为过去的几十年里， 事情真的发生很大的变化。