A person who practices bibliophilism; someone devoted to the collection, appreciation, and preservation of books as cultural and material treasures.
From bibliophilism with the agent suffix -ist. This formal term developed to distinguish committed book collectors who approach their hobby as a serious philosophy from casual readers.
A bibliophilist would rather spend an afternoon restoring a damaged 1820s edition of Byron than attend a cocktail party—to them, every book is a conversation with the past.
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