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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a book book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is a physical book, as opposed to an e-book or other format.
Example: "I prefer to read a book book rather than an e-reader because I love the feel of the pages."
Alternatives: "a physical book" or "a printed book".
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The New Yorker, December 30 , 1939P. 9 Miss Mabel Stegner who prepares many of the dishes used in colored advertisements is at present working on a book book of 150 Chinese recipes.
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"As opposed to a book-book fair?" I told him that at book-book fairs, like the famous one in Frankfurt, they mostly gave out catalogs.
We developed a retronym: if I slipped a book -- the kind with covers and pages -- into my backpack for the train or to get started on at home, that meant I was reading a "book-book".
When I got it, I sat down and read it like actually read the words starting in the beginning and flipping page after page, like a book-book.
A lost book-within-a-book propels this ambitious novel.
But the stories about adultery make a book-within-a-book.
Books, books, books.
Just books, books, books.
Books books books! 1.
A book is a book is a book".
A book is a book, right?
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