bibliophile
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Best known for his diaries, the tailor's son was also a bibliophile who bequeathed his large library to the University of Cambridge's Magdalene College.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
Carmen grew up devouring her opera-loving, bibliophile father’s books — he had a capacious library of the classics — and “in a Catholic bubble,” she told The Financial Times in 2020.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022
As something of a bibliophile, I found cutting pictures out of books appalling, but newspaper work hardens even the most sensitive soul.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
His books are wonderful—not for edition or binding—he is not a bibliophile; they are wonderful because he keeps nothing he has not found it worth while to annotate.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
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