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dead-tree

British  

adjective

  1. informal printed on paper

    a dead-tree edition of her book

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That’s what Kerf is suggesting, and it’s produced a dead-tree vessel that’s meant to hold precisely one Apple Card.

From The Verge • Sep. 2, 2019

If you take poetry seriously, or even half-seriously, you read the dead-tree editions.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014

The tome—304 pages for the dead-tree version—is written by Madhup Gulati, Adeesh Fulay, and Sudip Datta.

From Forbes • Aug. 9, 2013

And while many of you may know Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda as the creator of Slashdot, he's also a writer for the Post, getting his first byline in the Post Opinions section of the dead-tree edition.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2012

But then I'd printed it out and stuck it in my messy drawer of papers, the dead-tree graveyard where I kept all the warranty cards and pin-out diagrams.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory