These are all terms used to specify different ways of finishing a book.

• In a glued softcover book, the spine is milled after printing and folding the sections, and the adhesive takes over the function of the yarn. Because of the lack of  yarn, a glued book is by definition more vulnerable than a sewn book. The advantage however is that this finish is cheaper to produce. In this technique not all sorts of paper equally suitable. On smooth paper as mc (machine coated) the adhesive attaches less rough than on such as HVO or HV novel. The risk of loose pages in plain paper therefore very high.
• Sometimes, instead of adhesive used the term garenlas which would suggest that yarn in sight, which is categorically false.
• With a sewn bound book, the book blocks with a hard cover. In practice this is usually a 2 mm thick cardboard sheet. This carton board can be finished in various ways. For example, with linen, or (artificial) leather, or covered with a 135 gram paper mc. This paper will be printed in advance and provided with a laminate layer. This is called a bound book with a whole paper tape.
• Apart from a completely paper-tape is also a version with a cloth band or half cloth binding. With half the band is back in linen cloth and carried the front and rear paper.
• A sewn paperbound book is that the book is printed booklet, the folded signatures and then be fastened together with yarn and a cardboard-like cover can be hung. This is a book with yarn in back and a soft cover.