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bibliophagia (s) (noun), bibliophagias (pl)
The consumption of books by eating the pages: Jack read about a person suffering from bibliophagia who always ate up the pages of new books!

This abnormal desire refers to humans, and not to "book worms" as shown in the illustration!

A worm is eating in a book.
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This entry is located in the following units: Allotriophagy (page 1) biblio-, bibli-, bibl-, biblico- (page 4)