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Bibliovore
noun
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Noun
- 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 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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