as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books for bibliophiles, no electronic device could possibly give the tactile pleasure of a beautifully bound book

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Recent Examples of bibliophile This year, for the first time, a shuttle bus will transport bibliophiles between three, six, nine or all 13 participating bookstores. Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024 Finally, bibliophiles will want to leave some time to stop by the Jane Austen Centre to learn about the writer’s life, family, and legacy. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2024 Today, the bookshop hosts regular public events and offers a library curation service for bibliophiles looking to build their own reading rooms at home. Suyin Haynes, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024 There's something for every type of tech lover, including coffee enthusiasts, bibliophiles, adventurers, and more. Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bibliophile 
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  • More events happening this weekend: 📚North Park Book Fair Stop by the street festival with 100 booths featuring local booksellers and authors, comic stores, zinemakers, art, food, music and a Halloween costume contest.
    Kate Murphy, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Now, in the first ever collective action against book bans, more than 350 libraries, booksellers, publishers, advocates, and members of the public who believe in the freedom to read will hold rallies and take action across the country on October 19 for the Freedom to Read Community Day of Action.
    Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
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  • The copper plates were originally made to illustrate the book Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain by antiquarian Richard Gough.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, the sartorial antiquarian has turned it into a thrice-annual vintage fair on Manhattan’s West 18th Street in the Altman Building—the former carriage house that received goods for legendary New York department store B. Altman & Company.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.
    Bruce Holsinger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.
    Travis McDade, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020

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“Bibliophile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bibliophile. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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