Bibliophage

/ˌbɪbliˈɒfədʒ/ noun

A person who consumes or devours books, especially one who reads voraciously or consumes books without discrimination or true understanding.

From Greek biblio- (book) and -phage (eater, from phagein 'to eat'). The term emerged in the 19th century to describe readers who consumed large quantities of books, sometimes with a mildly pejorative connotation suggesting excessive or uncritical reading.

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