bookwise

adv

adv

Etymology From book + -wise.

In the manner of a book.

[S]he strode to the middle of the room the paper held and folded book-wise in her hands.1878, Bret Harte, “The Man on the Beach”, in Drift From Two Shores:
Unknown to the audience, the left fingers have tilted the two red top cards open bookwise […]1977, Theodore Annemann, Annemann's Card Magic, page 22:

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