1) that is not true, according to my morals, principles, and beliefs
2) in a place other than the bound collection of literature that belongs to me or rests in my hand
1)
Cop: "Oh man, what a hard day of busting drug dealers it's been. A big fat J would really hit the spot right now. Can I borrow some papers?"
Your square ass: "Isn't that...um...illegal? Smoking marijuana, I mean?"
Cop: "Not in my book. Bitch."
2)
"Damn, a playa really needs to take a piss after those 10 beers I just had. Over here would be a good spot."
"Oh shit!!!! Not in my book!!!"
"Whoops, sorry about that."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)