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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
What an e-book is not is a codex. That's the proper word for what people commonly think of when they say "book". The distinguishing feature between a paper book and an e-book is not that one is a book and the other is not, but that one is a codex and the other is not.
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I thought a "codex" was, by definition, hand written, not machine printed.
Is there another word?
If not, then if techie slang like ebook and pbook don't satisfy, then perhaps we need to coin a new retronym.
But I bet there's already another word.
ApK