bibliophile

noun

1. One who loves books.

   “A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.”

   “[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...”

2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
3. (rare)One who loves the Bible.

   “So, just for fun, here are the versions of Romans 1:26-27. Now don't go assuming [email protected] must be some kind of great bibliophile because he got all these old versions together. They're all in one place, the _New Testament Octapla_ by Luther Weigle, and I added a few of my own texts from my library; took me only a few minutes to type them.”

   “I dont^([sic]) consider myself a bibliophile....I just think it is God's word.”

   “>HA HA here we have this Bastachs Fuckhead >defending Christianity […] Your name is as wrong as the rest of your idiotic notions: you're not a bibliophile, you're a bibliophobe.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of bibliophile (“one who loves the Bible”).

   “> Whether or not a nonbeliever would care is moot. That's what bugs me about Bibliophiles, "Bible-worshippers." I was replying to a nonbeliever, so it most definitely is not moot. Look at the context, man.”

   “I'm not a Bibliophile, but I'm curious about something. You say that NT [New Testament] was translated from Greek to English. But, the Greeks had to at least do translations from x (Hebrew?) to Greek. You don't mean that Paul and Friends spoke Greek, do you?”

   “> Where in the Bible does it say the soul is immortal? Or that > suffering is eternal? Not being a Bibliophile these many years, I don't really know where it says the soul is immortal. I was raised to believe in the immortal soul but I don't remember where it would be.”

   “> > You read the Bible wrong, obviously. > > Bibiliolatry is not a good substitute for having a relationship with God, > who is love. I don't have a relationship with God, I have a relationship with a real woman. Not a Bibliophile but a believer in what God considers unforgiveable.”

   “Lizz 'I have a Douay, a King James, and a Revised Standard Edition--I guess I really am a Bibliophile' Holmans”