bibliomaniac
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Even as a child he was a bibliomaniac, spending his waking hours flipping pages “stiff as cartilage,” deciphering marginalia and cloistering himself in a reality of his own making.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2014
The first book I read on the Kindle was The Book Lover’s Tale, a psychological drama about a bibliomaniac gone to the bad.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2011
Though the garden-variety 19th century English baronet was normally content with a small, showcase library, Sir Thomas Phillipps was a certified bibliomaniac.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would you not, on the contrary, have thought with this illustrious bibliomaniac, and with the sages of Greece and Rome before him, that "in books is wisdom, and in wisdom is happiness."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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