Definition of "bookstand" []

• A small counter where books are sold. (noun)
• A bookrack. (noun)

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• "The team lost after designing a ropey beach bookstand for those people who can't be bothered to hold a Stieg Larsson paperback."
• "But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest."
• "Dustin Aksland for The Wall Street Journal On the second floor, a nook off the media room has a round Biedermeyer table with Frank Lloyd Wright barrel chairs and is topped by a spinning bookstand just like Jefferson, who liked to read several books at a time."