bibliovore

Someone or something that consumes books.

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.

Virtually everything requested was provided except for the odd file that had been misindexed, mislaid, or consumed by the silverfish and other bibliovores that inhabit dark and dusty shelves.

Synonym of bookworm (“avid book reader”).

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

So moved was I by the infectious liberating effect of this work (and not even Miller’s best I was to learn!) that I immediately purchased more of Miller’s books (paperbacks of course) and scarfed them down with equal relish. Man, the bibliovore.