videobook

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noun

A book developed in video format, or a video structured similarly to a book, used chiefly in teaching and learning.

“Stephen King has a new videobook - I can't wait to watch it!”

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounvideobook (plural videobooks)

plural videobooks

  1. A book developed in video format, or a video structured similarly to a book, used chiefly in teaching and learning.

    Stephen King has a new videobook - I can't wait to watch it!

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    Are there any Windows XP videobooks that will teach you computer networking?

    2001, William H. Hsu, in alt.fan.tolkien http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.tolkien/msg/3aff6ede3c67f48c?dmode=source Yes, I do expect someone else to come along and tell the story cinematically again. It's happened two or three times in our lifetimes, and the book is barely (or nearly, counting from 1954) 50 years old; why not again? But I don't expect a "videobook recording" cf. the audiobooks that have adhered verbatim or nearly so.

    He hurried along, hoping to get in position by sunrise, and climbed a high dune that made him think of a grandstand he had seen once in a videobook brought from offworld.

    2003, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN076534078X&id=dLbwPpBYDl8C&pg=PA331&lpg=PA331&sig=yBBf8q-7vLlnPPq6ooP-oyM1d94

    2004, Bob Crispen, in hsv.politics http://groups.google.com/group/hsv.politics/msg/229979099c425f41?dmode=source My son has written two books and a videobook, and his publishers gave him an advance on every one of them.

Origin

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APA

videobook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videobook

MLA

“videobook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videobook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “videobook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videobook.

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