non-bookn.adj.

1928 B. B. Bogoslovsky Technique of Controversy v. 118 If there were no non-books, we should have no idea of the existence of books.

1974 Ecologist 4 viii. 302/1 The producers and distributors of audio-visual aids (or ‘non-books’ as they are known in the trade) are listed alphabetically.

1997 K. Sutherland Electronic text vii. 140 As non-books they perplex because of their lack of a body, as it were—they seem to derive from a variable and inherently untrustworthy source.

1960 20th Cent. May 441 Technical language and presentation are necessary; they do not excuse so many non-books.

1972 Scholarly Publishing 3 101 Non-books..tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons.

1992 Quill & Quire Dec. 14/4 Other booksellers simply resented the fact that this ‘non-book’ was getting so much attention while ‘worthy’ books languished on the shelves.

1951 Public Opinion Q. 15 314/2 Non-book materials can reach all of our citizens, whether they are functional readers or not.

1974 Florida FL Reporter 13 45/2 We have been through everything from the..tedious transformational grammar composition handbooks to the non-book books.

1991 Dædalus Summer 125 All this took the new intelligentsia far from the world of ‘praxis’, the nonbook world of the more humble subjects of the sultan.

2000 Church Times 24 Mar. 7/1 In an attempt to revolutionise the idea of church, and to give people a different experience of what it means to be a Christian, New Clee has developed a non-book method of discipling called ‘The Road’.