librophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: librophiles
Etymology: From libro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: And there’s the craft people. And librophiles. Bibliophiles. It’s rather curious.
ref: 2001, Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of the Giants: Publishing lives, volume II, page 126:
text: Turning your own librophile approach, against you, I'd have to say that your opinions make lousy references.
ref: 2005 April 7, 1X2Willows, “Re: Todays Bible Lesson”, in alt.religion.druid (Usenet), message-ID <yac5e.2034$lP1.1742@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:
text: Hey fellow librophiles....just a friendly reminder that the Symphony Book Fair is being held at UNO Lakefront Arena today thru Sunday.
ref: 2008 April 1, Mystyk119, “Symphony Book Fair”, in neworleans.general (Usenet), message-ID <1998040123303301.SAA14344@ladder01.news.aol.com>:
text: The Essential Nicholson Baker [imo] is Double Fold, about libraries discarding their paper newspapers & magazines in favor of (often) poorly-done microfilm. Riveting reading for librophiles.
ref: 2002 August 5, Peter D. Tillman, “Re: REVIEW: The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <tillman-C2A673.21051904082002@news.toast.net>:
text: Hello librophiles, / I just wanted to let New Yorkers on this list know that the Godlight Theatre Company will be bringing Graham Greene's 1949 novel "The Third Man" to the stage for the first time on May 8th 2003.
ref: 2003 April 30, Maielloclypse the Younger, “First Stage Adapation of Graham Greene's The Third Man”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), message-ID <c55e8c57.0304301016.2c25f4c4@posting.google.com>:
text: The “phil” (die philiale, Parkring 12, +43 (0)158 10 489, www.phil.info) is, “A new and very popular cosy hang-out for cinephiles, audiophiles, librophiles and other philes. You can browse through their selection of books, DVDs and records while you enjoy a coffee or snack. The furniture is for sale too,” she adds.
ref: 2007 May, Mary Carey, quoting Bady Minck, “Travelling [§] Artful Vienna”, in PaperJam, page 201, column 1:
text: But I tell her that many librophiles could see iPads – which Airport Library embraces wholeheartedly – as a serious threat to libraries as well as the traditional book form. / But for Deckers, it’s not only about taking the library to the people but also how the information is carried: if libraries offer new forms to carry information, the better this is for their future. / “We’re not librophiles,” she states. “A library is not about books. A book is just a carrier and information can be stored on all kind of carries: film, computers, anything. Most librarians I know agree on that.”
ref: 2011, David Meller, quoting Jeanine Deckers, “Pop-Up Libraries [§] The Airport Library”, in David Meller, editor, Catch. A quarterly independent publication, page 7, column 3:
text: So until that point, “Project Runway” will have to suffice as the proving ground for a projected dialogue and synthesis of identities and sexualities. The relative stability of these socially-determined roles and hierarchies from a historical perspective is not likely to change anytime soon, but at the very least the TV program can demonstrate for us that identity and expression through all media matters, that they need not be predetermined or repressed, and that it is possible to be a peacock in a world of pigeons. And I think that the “Project Runway” mentor Tim Gunn, a former champion swimmer, a librophile, a student and a teacher of design and a proud gay man, demonstrates this potential perfectly.
ref: 2012 November 30, Chris Kempf, “Commentary [§] Project Runway: A democracy of identity”, in The Daily Campus, volume CXIX, number 72, page 8:
text: The executors of Lessing’s estate decided to split her impressive collection of literature between the University of East Anglia and the Harare city library, with the majority of the librophile’s personal library contents to be sent to Zimbabwe with the help of the author’s favourite charity, Book Aid International.
ref: 2014 September, Sertan Sanderson, “La Vie des Écoles [§] Doris Lessing leaves 3000 books to Zimbabwe library”, in The South African, number 581, page 8:
glosses: Synonym of bookworm.
synonyms: word: bookworm
Synonyms: bibliophage
bibliophile
bibliovore
book lover
bookworm
librovore