Bibliomaniac
excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
Historical Examples
A History of American Literature Since 1870 Fred Lewis Pattee
The Care of Books John Willis Clark
Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The Inventions of the Idiot John Kendrick Bangs
The Book Lovers’ Anthology Various
The Idiot John Kendrick Bangs
The Inventions of the Idiot John Kendrick Bangs
noun
extreme fondness for books
n.
A bibliomaniac must be carefully distinguished from a bibliophile. The latter has not yet freed himself from the idea that books are meant to be read. [Walsh]
n.
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