Characterized by excessive reverence or worship of books; showing the traits of someone who treats books as sacred.
From bibliolatry + -ous (Latin -osus, adjective-forming suffix). Emerged in the 19th century to describe the behavior and attitudes of book devotees.
A bibliolatrous collector might never actually read their books but keep them in pristine condition—the object's physical perfection matters more than its intellectual content.
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