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Bibliomania; or Book-Madness
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA learned, cheerfully self-aware treatise on the compulsive disease of book-collecting, written by a man who was, by his own frequent admission, incurably afflicted by it himself. Dibdin coined much of the vocabulary book-collectors still use to describe their own affliction. Reading it in this particular room feels less like study and more like a diagnosis.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 19 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #28540. In the public domain in the United States.