bibliovore

Noun

bibliovore (plural bibliovores)

1. (uncommon) 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...1967 November 17, Roz Davis, “‘Pre-enrollment Held’: Receipts to guard against library errors”, in Brian Weiss, editor, UCLA Daily Bruin, volume LXXII, number 36, Los Angeles, Calif.: Communications...
   • 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.1993, Chris Sauer, “The Case Study Approach”, in Why Information Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach (Information Systems Series), Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Alfred Waller Limited, →ISBN, section...

   Synonyms:

   bibliophage

2. (figuratively, uncommon) 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.1980 October 3, “My Favorite Bookstore”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 93, number 383, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, page 6L, column 1
   • 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.1993, John W. Bagnole, “Henry Miller as a Dead Duck: (or) Mixing Metaphors on a Journey out of the Twentieth Century”, in Craig Peter Standish, editor, Henry Miller: A Book of Tributes, 1931-1994...

   Synonyms:

   bookworm