dead-tree
Britishadjective
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But some patrons, like Ms. Beaky, had old-fashioned piles of dead-tree matter, wrapped with request slips bearing their names.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
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
A study by the Student Public Interest Research Groups concluded that students could save an average $128 a course if school swapped dead-tree texts for an open-source books.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2015
The tome—304 pages for the dead-tree version—is written by Madhup Gulati, Adeesh Fulay, and Sudip Datta.
From Forbes ● Aug. 9, 2013
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 Cory Doctorow
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