This is several hundred pages of electronic paper bound together, with a computer concealed in the spine.

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His desk is laden with the thick, string-bound paper dossiers beloved of Indian civil servants and cordially loathed by everyone else.

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It seems likely that, eventually, only books that have value as souvenirs, gifts or artefacts will remain bound in paper.

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And they are not bound to paper-littered offices.

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But if you visualized the bill as a bound and printed document, set in paper if not stone, then you were mistaken.

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There was implicit criticism of Deolalikar for not doing more due diligence before circulating a paper that, because of its topic, was bound to stir up interest.

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Whatever the outcome, it is, indeed, bound to feel like justice by rock-paper-scissors.

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So far, says Mr Kessel, this does not seem to spell the end of paper books, since Kindle users buy just as many bound books as before, so that their total consumption of books goes up by 2.6 times.

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Today, it seems, paper comes into use only when the issue is printed and bound.

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In "The Reading Hour, " a column that she wrote for the Bakersfield paper, Knief had also noted that this tale of migratory labor was bound to be "of more than passing interest" to local readers.

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The shift from paper eliminated the need for two dozen transcribers and filing staff at police headquarters, and freed desk-bound officers to return to the streets.

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