In the case of colportage that use is taken to an extreme, as the bibliophile becomes bibliophage. |
It is thus that, in the midst of her soliloquy, the bibliophage recounts how she became well schooled in the arts of amatory intrigue, courtly artifice, and rhetorical deception. |
By keeping the shelves away from the walls and giving a little attention to wormy volumes, the Library may be easily freed from this kind of bibliophage. |
Bibliophage, or bibliophagist, a book-eater, or devourer of books. |