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Biblioclast

Biblioclast:

A person who mutilates or destroys books.

Laughterature

Laughterature:

Une littérature qui sanctionne et célèbre dans un même éclat de rire l’absurdité du monde.

(Term uitgevonden door de Frans-Amerikaanse schrijver Raymond Federman om zijn eigen werk te beschrijven: 'The word laughterature comes from the word "laughter" and the French "rature," meaning "erasing." Laughter erases itself because behind the laughter is sadness. The only thing that saved me was being able to laugh. Beckett said: "To laugh or to cry, finally it comes out the same in the end." So I chose laughter.')

Bibliotaphy

Bibliotaphy:

The practice of hoarding and hiding or burying books. Like many bookish words, this one includes the biblio- prefix, from the Greek biblion (book), which also gave us Bible. The suffix, -taphy, is from the Greek taphos (tomb).

Xenagorabibliomania

Xenagorabibliomania:

An obsessive curiosity about the books that strangers read in open spaces.

(Gesignaleerd in Can't put it down?, een artikel in The Guardian naar aanleiding van het verschijnen van The Complete Polysyllabic Spree van Nick Hornby)

Bibliomulas

Bibliomulas:

Muilezels die boeken naar afgelegen gebieden brengen in Venezuela.

Naar analogie van de bibliomulas varen er ondertussen ook bibliofalcas op de Orinoco.

Abibliophobia

Abibliophobia:

The morbid fear of running out of reading material.

Usage: It is quite interesting that this word has popped up on the Web, the greatest source of reading material the world has ever known. Irony will never cease.

Suggested Usage: Words on –phobia originally referred to psychotic conditions but now we have extracted a word, 'phobia', from the suffix and add it wherever we please: 'Wylie is such an abibliophobe that he never leaves the house without several magazines under his arm.' In a world where this word could refer to a psychotic state, we could say, 'What better refuge from abibliophobia than the library?'

Etymology: Today's was probably a nonce word created for amusement more than linguistic use. However, it is constructed better than most nonce words and has survived and is flourishing in Cyberia. Greek a 'not' + bibli-(on) 'book' + o, a connector + phob(os) 'fear' + ia, a nominal suffix.

Bron: Dr. Language, yourdictionary.com