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A Person Who Reads a Lot Is Called

"Bookworm" redirects here. For insects that bore through books, run into Bookworm (insect).

Love of books

Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the beloved of books. A bibliophile or bookworm is an individual who loves and frequently reads books.

Contour [edit]

The classic bibliophile is one who loves to read, admire and collect books,[A] oft amassing a large and specialized collection. Bibliophiles commonly possess books they love or that hold special value likewise as quondam editions with unusual bindings, autographed, or illustrated copies.[three] "Bibliophile" is an appropriate term for a minority of those who are volume collectors.

Usage of the term [edit]

Bibliophilia is non to be confused with bibliomania, a potential symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder involving the collecting of books to the extent that interpersonal relations or health may be negatively afflicted, and in which the mere fact that a concrete object is a volume is sufficient for it to be collected or beloved. Some use the term "bibliomania" interchangeably with "bibliophily", and in fact, the Library of Congress does not use the term "bibliophily," just rather refers to its readers as either book collectors or bibliomaniacs.[4] [ verification needed ]

History [edit]

According to Arthur H. Minters, the "individual collecting of books was a way indulged in by many Romans, including Cicero and Atticus".[5] The term bibliophile entered the English language in 1824.[vi] A bibliophile is to be distinguished from the much older notion of a bookman (which dates back to 1583), who is one who loves books, and specially reading; more generally, a bookman is one who participates in writing, publishing, or selling books.[7]

Lord Spencer and the Marquess of Blandford were noted bibliophiles. "The Roxburghe sale apace became a foundational myth for the burgeoning secondhand book merchandise, and remains and so to this solar day"; this sale is memorable due to the competition between "Lord Spencer and the marquis of Blandford [which] collection [the price of a probable start edition of Boccaccio's Decameron up to the amazing and unprecedented sum of £2,260".[viii] J. P. Morgan was also a noted bibliophile. In 1884, he paid $24,750 for a 1459 edition of the Mainz Psalter.[9]

Encounter also [edit]

  • Book collecting
  • Bibliophobia
  • Oxford Academy Lodge of Bibliophiles, U.k.
  • United States:
    • Antiquarian book trade in the United States
    • The Volume Club of Detroit
    • Caxton Social club, Chicago
    • The Club of Odd Volumes, Boston
    • Grolier Social club, New York
    • Bibliophile mailing listing
Similar terms
  • Audiophilia
  • Cinephilia
  • Comicphilia
  • Telephilia
  • Videophilia

References [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Of form, a bookworm is an insect that eats books. The term "bookworm" is often used as a metaphor to describe a voracious reader, an indiscriminate reader, or a bibliophile. In its earliest iterations, information technology had a negative connotation, due east.g., an idler who read rather than worked. Over the years its meaning has drifted in a more than positive direction.[one] Some other meaning of the phrase is "a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit."[ii]

Citations [edit]

  1. ^ "Is 'bookworm' positive or negative?". Merriam Webster. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  2. ^ "Bookworm". synonyms . Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Carter, John (1952). ABC for Book Collectors. Archived from the original on 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2011-x-04 .
  4. ^ "Home | Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 United states of america.
  5. ^ Minters, Arthur H. (1979). Collecting Books for Fun and Turn a profit . New York: Arco Publishing Inc. ISBN0-668-04598-i.
  6. ^ "Definition of BIBLIOPHILE". www.merriam-webster.com.
  7. ^ "Definition of BOOKMAN". world wide web.merriam-webster.com.
  8. ^ Connell, Philip (2000). "Book Collecting: Cultural Politics, and the Rise of Literary Heritage in Romantic Britain". Representations. 71: 24–47. doi:10.1525/rep.2000.71.1.01p00764.
  9. ^ Basbanes, Nicholas (1995). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt.
  • Merriam-Webster, Inc. (1996). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.). Springfield, Mass: Merriam-Webster, Inc. ISBN0-87779-709-9.

Further reading [edit]

External video
video icon Booknotes interview with Nicholas Basbanes on A Gentle Madness, Oct 15, 1995, C-Bridge
  • Bulletin du Bibliophile (1834-) Bulletin du bibliophile (1834). Since 1963 published by the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie.Clan internationale de bibliophilie
  • Richard de Coffin (1902). The Love of Books: "The Philobiblon" translated by E. C. Thomas. London: Alexander Moring
  • Rugg, Julie (2006). A Volume Addict'due south Treasury. London: Frances Lincoln ISBN 0-7112-2685-vii
  • Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1809). Bibliomania. New York, Henry One thousand. Bohn.
  • Andrew Lang (1881). The Library. London, Macmillan & Co.
  • Stebbins, Robert A. (2013). The Committed Reader: Reading for Utility, Pleasance, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow.

External links [edit]

A Person Who Reads a Lot Is Called

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