Bibliovore

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that consumes books. uncommon

    "The book probably was at the bottom of a pile of 14 library books, accidentally got picked up and dumped in the bibliovore labeled “Return Books Here.” […] [Y]ou meekly approach the library to find out what they would do with a book that wasn’t theirs. […] [I]f the marking is on the inside, the marking that has your name or the name of the department on it, it disappears."

  2. 2
    Synonym of bookworm (“avid book reader”). figuratively, uncommon

    "Leisure asked a few Vancouver Sun writers and editors — arguably the city’s most voracious group of bibliovores — about their favorite browsing spots."

Etymology

From biblio- (“book”) + -vore (“consumer”).

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