bookbin

English

Noun

bookbin (plural bookbins)

1. Alternative form of book bin
   • 1965, Library Herald - Volumes 7-9, page 33:

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

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

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

   • 1981, State, page 18:

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

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

     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.