Biblioklept } a book-plunderer or robber.
Bibliocharybdis: a Charybdis of books.
Biblioriptos: one who throws books around.
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MAGICIANS OF THE SHELVES.
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As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding and many civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings.—Milton.
It is pleasant to take down one of the magicians of the shelf, to annihilate my neighbor and his evening parties, and to wander off through quiet country lanes into some sleepy hollow of the past.—Cornhill Magazine, Rambles among Books.
