Book collecting

thumb|upright|A pile of books and papers, compiled yet unread

thumb|Engraving titled The Bibliomaniac from Navis Stultifera (The Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brandt, 1497. Bibliomania is the excessive collecting or even hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged, particularly as a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder.

specific version of a work, resulting from its edition, adaptation, or translation; set of substantially similar copies of a work (use with P31 ["instance of"])

thumb|upright=1.35|This piece of Wahrheit und Dichtung by Melchior Kirchhofer has pencil notes that might have been written by [[Josef Eiselein.]] thumb|The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are considered the oldest surviving phrases written in the [[Castilian language.]] thumb|A page from an illuminated Armenian language|Armenian manuscript with painted marginalia

thumb|A historical example of ephemera Ephemera () are items which were not originally designed to be retained or preserved, but have been collected or retained. The word is both plural and singular.

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book which has been owned before by an owner other than the publisher or retailer

activity of collecting books

subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books

thumb|Heavy foxing on the title page of an 1832 [[textbook]]

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An antilibrary is a collection of books that are owned but have not yet been read. The term was coined by Umberto Eco and popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The concept it describes has been compared to the Japanese tsundoku.

publishing and printing operation operated as an artistic or craft-based endeavor

strip of paper looped around a book or other product

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1840 hoax in Binche, Belgium

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