The Love of Books
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (167210)
Boise, Idaho
June 25, 2022 2:40pm CST
I have always loved books. I used to have scads of them. They used to be needed in a household but, not so nowadays. It is rather sad. A home needed a library full of books by the best authors, books for research, dictionaries, and such to really be a home. All used to be needed. Nowadays we can put a few words in a search engine and find all we could possibly want on any given subject.
Today during my usual wondering about the web I found a site, ThoughtCo.com, and I wanted to share some of the words we never knew we needed that were listed in an article on the subject. They are real words and most can be found in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
* Abibliophobia - The fear of running out of things to read.
* Bibliobibuli - The type of people who read too much.
* Bibliognost - One who has a comprehensive knowledge of books.
* Bibliophagist - An avid or voracious reader.
* Biblioopole - A dealer especially in rare or curious books.
https://www.thoughtco.com/perfect-words-about-books-and-reading-4857373
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
I used to have my shelves full of books. Some are in boxes now. My shelves have Lego and grandson originals in them.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
@RubyHawk ..........Little? Toys? He is nineteen and these 'toys' are his favorite pass time of building things. He takes Lego and constructs things. He is a big kid.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
26 Jun 22
@celticeagle Oh Yes, the little grandson:must have a place for his toys. I keep a truck, a huge ball, colors and coloring book for when my grands visit.
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@Deepizzaguy (103100)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Jun 22
Book reading is fun since I can learn things that I did not know before.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
Sure is. I still save some I can't find again.
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@BarBaraPrz (47388)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Jun 22
I might be four of those five...
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@BarBaraPrz (47388)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Jun 22
@celticeagle All the best people are. 
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
25 Jun 22
I never got into reading, until the past 30 years. Now, I love reading and cherish my books.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
@kobesbuddy ..........I totally understand.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
26 Jun 22
@celticeagle Some of my books, I refer to them over and over again. They never lose their value.
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@aninditasen (16412)
• Raurkela, India
26 Jun 22
The internet is very useful for searching about words and gives lot of knowledge that books used to give earlier.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
Yes, and now we can get more info quicker. Not have to go to the library.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
@kobesbuddy ......If I am using the information for writing I check several different sites and try to only use those sites that I have gotten good info from in the past.
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
26 Jun 22
Some of the Internet information isn't accurate material.
@aninditasen
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@LindaOHio (179152)
• United States
26 Jun 22
I have always preferred a physical book over an e-book.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jun 22
So much easier to go online. I find it hard to find something that grabs my interest.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jun 22
@flapiz ........Poems always fascinated me.
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@flapiz (23148)
• United Kingdom
29 Jun 22
@celticeagle I'm now more into poems and short stories.
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@LeaPea2417 (37357)
• Toccoa, Georgia
25 Jun 22
I love reading books and learning words I have never heard of.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Jun 22
@LeaPea2417 .........Learned some great words.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
My ex-husband and I used to play a game where we would pick a word out of the dictionary and share it with the other.
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@LeaPea2417 (37357)
• Toccoa, Georgia
26 Jun 22
@celticeagle that sounds like a fun game.
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@Marilynda1225 (82839)
• United States
25 Jun 22
I love to read and probably would fit the bibliophobia category. No matter how many books I have I'm always looking for more
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
I used to read one fiction and one non-fiction at one time. Doing a lot of self-help back then.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jun 22
@Marty1 ............When I was younger I felt like I had so much I wanted to read that I read as much as I could at one time.
Always enjoyed a good self-help book.
@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jun 22
@Marty1 ........And so many books out on any given subject.
@JESSY3236 (19968)
• United States
5 Jul 22
I love books too. My mother used to fuss about getting more books. Now I have a Kindle and I get books through the library.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Jul 22
My mom would set up until all hours reading a book. She loved books and instilled that in me.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Jul 22
@JESSY3236 .......I was read to quite a bit as a child.
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@JESSY3236 (19968)
• United States
12 Jul 22
@celticeagle My grandmother was like that. She loved to read too. My mother used to read too, but she has been too busy to sit and read.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Jul 22
Too much? I think I could have been all of them at one time or another.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Jul 22
@paigea ..........I was never a Bibliophagist but may have had Abibliophobia.
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
3 Jul 22
@celticeagle I used to be a Bibliophagist also and of course I was an Abibliophobia. 
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
4 Jul 22
This is interesting. During my college days, I had a handy notebook which I used to write down any words I may come across while reading. I put a title on it - my new found words.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Jul 22
I used to always have a pen and paper with me. Made notes on anything I thought of or read that I liked for my writing and words that I found interesting.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Jul 22
@Nakitakona ........It used to be that way for me. I lost it somewhere along the way.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
6 Jul 22
@celticeagle Me too. That's one of the reasons why I love or writing becomes my passion.
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@luisga814 (7140)
• Quezon City, Philippines
25 Jun 22
As a former librarian, I love reading books too.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
Great to know another book lover.
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@luisga814 (7140)
• Quezon City, Philippines
27 Jun 22
@fasihpti it depends upon the needs in the curriculum.
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@Beestring (14580)
• Hong Kong
26 Jun 22
I love reading books. I still have a bookshelf in my apartment. I prefer reading printed books. My eyes get tired easily when reading online books.
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@ElicBxn (63608)
• United States
26 Jun 22
I read online. I read on paper. I read on audio. I have lots of books... I probably have a couple of hundred on my "to be read" shelves... actually I've got a whole little bookcase - used to be a VHS shelf, but I use it for books. I do still have VHS tapes too...
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Jun 22
I had a lot on my "want to read" list too. I have a few VHS tapes too.
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@RasmaSandra (80030)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Jun 22
I love to read and when I do not have anything new I often reread many of my books, I read in both English and Latvian.
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@celticeagle (167210)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 22
Interesting. Different languages much give you different options.
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