Noun

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Accounts, book keeping work

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 27, author=Kelvin Healey, title=Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid , work=Herald Sun citation

, passage=The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.}}

The art and science of formatting books.

* {{quote-book, 1976, title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 5, author=Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent

, passage=The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.}}

Work done with the aid of textbooks

* {{quote-book, 2008, title=School Management and School Methods, author=Joseph Baldwin citation

, passage=The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.}}

The act of memorising information; (used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought)

* {{quote-book, 1852, title=Five years in an English university, author=Charles Astor Bristed citation

, passage=The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.}}