Do you salivate over books? Does walking into a library equate entering a realm of the otherworldly? Do bookstores call out to you with a siren song, dragging you over the portal and dumping you unceremoniously in front of the new releases shelf? If so, you, my friend, are a bibliophile. Whether you read books for enjoyment or collect them for investment, you know who you are – a living, breathing book lover. Taken from “Among the Gently Mad” by Nicholas A. Basbanes: “The first documented use of the word bibliomania in English came in 1750 when Philip Dormer Stanhope, … Continue reading →