bookless
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- adjective
- /ˈbʊk.ləs/
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sin libros
- But bars and straitjackets could not be worse, I thought, as I passed the next years in the bookless apartment of Aunt Martha, Mom's sister, who put plastic on her furniture to protect the upholstery and didn't understand irony.
Examples
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In 2009, the school library at Cushing Academy in Boston announced that it was going bookless.
Academic text (2014) -
The Associated Press ran their own poll and announced last August that 27 percent of their respondents had spent the year bookless.
Blog text (28) -
If I were bookless, I could live in a house that was at least one full room smaller, perhaps two.
Blog text (13) -
I'm going to be bookless.
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Schools are experimenting with "bookless" library concepts.
Academic text (2011) -
Though a few schools have pioneered the digital movement, there has not been a huge surge of other school libraries going totally bookless.
Academic text (2014) -
Discussions of learning commons and "bookless" libraries hint at this separation between library and librarian.
Academic text (2014) -
The shelves were bookless, lined instead with eight-track tapes and exotic Oriental vases.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many children in developing countries remain bookless due to a lack of resources.
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After the library was renovated, it transformed into a bookless space filled with digital resources.
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Etymology
Bookless is made of book and -less, where -less means 'without'. So bookless means 'without books', like a classroom or home with empty shelves that has no books.