bibliomane

plural bibliomanes

1. Synonym of bibliomaniac.

   To the bibliomanes of my generation, it comes as a shock to learn how much of a book can be punched onto a tape and clicked off by a computer.

   1966, Bibliotheca Medica: Physician for Tomorrow, the Harvard Medical School, page 78

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   A very significant fact is that the Greek and Latin classics in the choicest editions, unless indeed they have the good luck to be in Derome or Trautz-Bauzonnet bindings, are not looked at by the bibliomanes of the period.

   1879 January 11, “Bibliomania in 1878”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XLVII, London: […], page 46, column 1

   (A companion piece by Brenda Scragg on the bibliomane William Ford is, alas, but a shadow of the rewarding study of this collector-turned-dealer which Anthony Lister published in the book collector in 1989.)

   2001, The Book Collector, volume 50, page 136

   The ever-present danger was that the cultivated amateur would overstep the bounds of civilized interest into the domain of obsession; the line between the bibliophile and the bibliomane was never quite as firmly drawn as Nodier would have liked: “There is only a single attack of nerves separating the bibliophile from the bibliomaniac” (Du bibliophile au bibliomane, il n’y a qu’une crise”; 102).

   2007, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume 122, page 245, column 1

   Synonyms: bibliomaniac