India, July 30 -- What does your paperback carry beyond your fingerprints? Highlighted with decorations, personalised charms, old forgotten stamps/bills as bookmarks, some annotations here and there, and a creative expression let-out with the #bookgram. On Paperback Book Day, today, take a look at how readers are nowadays reinventing the way they connect with paperbacks as the printed editions of these continue to transform the traditional reading experience.

Books have remained one of the most cherished leisure activities for generations, and continue to claim their space even in the digital age, but there's to the charm of paperbacks that just their appeal of being affordable and portable. Unlike older generation, which often preserves...