Tossed back into the safe, the envelope landed with non-paperlike clunk. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
• Unique paperlike display, read even in bright sunlight based on eink. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Those included several small, torn bags made of a silvery, somewhat paperlike material. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
She opened one and pulled out the slim sheaf of paperlike plastic, amused at the novelty. From Wordnik.com. [Mirage]
They were all gathered around a table, staring at a paperlike document that had been spread out in front of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Rama]
Version 1.0 being the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, version 2.0 the promised Plastic Logic reader and maybe Kindle 2.0, and version 3.0 a fully flexible, very thin, paperlike, color reader: basically a reusable newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Micropayments for news » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference
Orun had shown them the Mercan equivalent of books—small cubes like Orun's map of Mercan that unfolded into sequential sheets of paperlike substance with printing on the sheets in the as-yet-undeciphered Mercan written symbols that looked so much like Arabic script on Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Abode of Life] Reference
Both e-book readers use the same E Ink technology for their main screen: a pale gray, matte surface that looks a bit like an Etch A Sketch but displays text (and monochrome images, with 16 levels of gray) in far more readable fashion than an LCD, thanks to its paperlike opacity. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The earliest writing consists of pictographs which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. From Wordnik.com. [Admiral Farragut] Reference
This product really does look like an actual paper cup, to the point of startling people with its un-paperlike sound when you set it down. From Wordnik.com. [grat.uito.us] Reference
The first-generation paperlike E-Ink display that keeps eyestrain at bay (as compared with the backlit displays of cell phones and other mobile devices). From Wordnik.com. [Latest from Computerworld] Reference
The first-generation Kindle weighed 10.3 ounces and offered a paperlike E Ink display that keeps eyestrain at bay (as compared with the backlit displays of cell phones and other mobile devices). From Wordnik.com. [iPod reviews and news of iPod-related products, including iPod nano, iPod shuffle] Reference
I thought Aro was older than Crispin Glover (paperlike skin and cloudy / caterac-like eyes), but he is def. creepy enough for the role. cara Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12: 36 PM EST kellansmymonkyman Mon, Dec. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
In a minute or two it forms into a thin paperlike cake, and she takes it up by the edge, folds it once, and places it on a basket tray; then another and another sheet of paper-bread is made in like manner and piled on the tray. From Wordnik.com. [Canyons of the Colorado] Reference
The water somehow causes the particles to bind into a paperlike layer on the filter’s surface, the researcher reports in tomorrow’s Nature. From Wordnik.com. [New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes | Impact Lab] Reference
On the other hand, the screen is small (320×480 compared with the Kindle’s 600×800 – and if you’re suggesting reading on a palmos or winmob device with even smaller screens, um … ok …) and it projects light directly into your eyes (as opposed to the Kindles passive, paperlike e-ink screen). From Wordnik.com. [On the reaction to Amazon’s Kindle : #comments] Reference
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