Meaning of librovore | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of bookworm.

rare

Examples

“Jim Shields, the well-known bibliophag (or shall we say⟳ librovore), tells us that at 1303 North Second street he has seen the following sign⟳, well-made and neatly painted: When Alliterations Are Completed, etc.”

“Like⟳ any honest bibliophag—or shall I say⟳ librovore—I can never see⟳ anyone reading a book without a passion to find⟳ out, by means foul or fair, what it is. So I stopped and said, “Well, Sister, what are you reading?””

“Slogans remind⟳ us, Logan Pearsall Smith’s Unforgotten Years has been postponed until the New Year: but you can put⟳ in the time reading Mr. Smith’s Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton written long ago but recently revived among a few librovores.”

“I see⟳ it this way: When I was a kid I was bookish, extremely literate for my age, the usual cliched embryonic SF reader. Of course, the oiks didn't want⟳ to know⟳ about me, and those that did only wanted to beat⟳ me up. So I avoided the thickos and sought my own⟳ kind. When I think⟳ of "kids when I was a kid", I'm thinking of those relatively smart librovores that I mixed with.”

“What will die-hard librovores — which make⟳ up the Kindle faithful — think⟳ of their beloved e-reader suddenly becoming more computer than book?”

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