bookbin

plural bookbins

1. alternativeAlternative form of book bin.

   Now is the time to clean out those extra books and bring them to the bookbins located around the Department.

   1981, State, page 18

   3 more examples

   Instead of destroying or selling the residue as second-hand stuff, the bookbin should exchange it with other bookbins in the country.

   1965, Library Herald - Volumes 7-9, page 33

   Oversized and thin picture books, which would be lost in conventional shelving, should be placed in bookbins.

   1980, Nolan Lushington, Willis N. Mills, Libraries designed for users: a planning handbook, page 118

   Another man might have put little volumes in his left and right coat pockets and salted them in bookbins throughout Manhattan, or stashed them behind other books in bookstores, so that they might have a chance of surviving, much as Herman's mad cousin Harry Crosby did in Paris in the 1920s with books from Cousin Walter Van Rensselaer Berry's library.

   2005, Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography, →ISBN