How to use the hyphen

It seems to me that an electronic text cannot emotionally engage its owner as can an actual book ‒ paper, papyrus or vellum, airport paperback or Daunt Books hardback or super-luxurious lavishly-illustrated limited-edition coffee-table tome.

- Josh Spero, Second-Hand Stories (imminent)

Books I've actually finished lately: 41

Longlisted - without the ugly sticker - for the Man Booker Prize 2014.

Also wins the ASH Smyth Prize for most uses of 'fuccan cunt' in an historical novel. (Probably.)