1. a person who has an obsessive desire to collect and possess books

Examples

• The bibliomaniac’s house was filled with towering stacks of books in every room.
• As a bibliomaniac, she couldn’t resist buying rare first editions even when she couldn’t afford them.
• His friends joked that he was a bibliomaniac because he owned over 10,000 books.
• The bibliomaniac spent her entire inheritance on a private library collection.
• Unlike a casual reader, a bibliomaniac feels compelled to acquire books constantly.
• The auction house attracted several bibliomaniacs bidding on antique manuscripts.