Steve Jobs referred to the "Catalog" as "sort of like Google in paperback form, thirty-five years before Google came along".
It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
One of them was Steve Jobs, who was brought up in Palo Alto and who, in 2005, told a group of graduating students at Stanford in a famous speech: "The Whole Earth Catalog … was one of the bibles of my generation … it was a sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along.
I'm not going to be as interested, perhaps, in the subject of a young paperback writer now as I was then, because I was a young paperback writer, sort of.
And, in "The Magdalene," Mae's cousin Nell, cast out of Ireland but bringing her drowned ghosts with her, becomes the sort of nurse who notices the paperback Dante in a dying soldier's pocket.
Years later, it achieves sort of an afterlife, usually in its paperback form and most often on a shelf in a beach house or summer place, somewhere books linger.
Then again, structured jackets, she recites, dispensing the sort of sensible advice proffered in her trade paperback best seller, "Style" (Berkley, 1995), help hide body flaws.
The stigma of paperback originals.
Mass-market paperbacks, the smaller format of paperback popular in airports and grocery stores, also decreased in sales.
