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I believe that this is when you take a paperback and affix some form of cardboard stock to the endpapers to make it more durable, like a sort of semi-hardbound edition. I've also seen this done a bit more elaborately, where the covers have been removed and pasted, sometimes under laminate, to a much sturdier binding. These are often found in libraries, especially in school libraries on popular fiction most commonly (and cheaply) found in softcover editions. Hence 'turtleback', because a shell has been placed over the otherwise soft & relatively squishy innards of a paperback.

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