(1) The Library is fortunate to have received the products of his bibliomania .(2) Librarians were outraged and felt he had given bibliomania a bad name because the word originally meant u2018an intense love for booksu2019.(3) Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania , which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books.(4) Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania .(5) He was a lover of classical literature who passed his bibliomania to his son.(6) His bibliomania drove him to pay a fortune for any book that caught his interest.(7) Taking over a whole town for the cause of pages printed and bound may look to some like bibliomania .(8) As his bibliomania grew, his worst fears became confirmed; he wrote less and less, and more crabbedly and obscurely.(9) His bibliomania ran especially to foreign books and obscure theologians.(10) His bibliomania is such that he notices little around him: the advent of electricity, the onset of war.(11) Le Prince's comments were echoed nearly forty years later by another visitor to the library, the British antiquarian and self-professed u2018 bibliomaniac u2019 Thomas Frognall Dibdin.(12) The literary essays chronicle a bibliomaniac 's passion and obsession with naming and collecting.(13) The Bangalore-based freelance writer, is a bibliomaniac and a bibliomane.(14) Mainly I'm a bibliomaniac and I do a lot of book collecting and I have some nice books, first editions and so on.(15) The proper relation to books is not that of the u2018bookwormu2019 or u2018 bibliomaniac ,u2019 but that of the u2018creativeu2019 reader who uses books as a stimulus to attain u2018his own sight of principles.u2019