flipbacknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈflɪp.bæk/us/ˈflɪp.bæk/a style of book that is smaller than usual and that you open with the longer side towards you and read from the top of the page to the bottom, rather than from right to left:
As you read the flipback, you move the pages upward rather than turning them to the left.
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- folio
- glossy
- manuscript
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- picture book
- travelogue
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