bibliophage

noun

Etymology: From biblio- + -phage, from Ancient Greek βῐ́βλος (bĭ́blos, “book”) and φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).

1. A person who loves to read books; a bookworm.

   “Janet loved reading. She was a real bibliophage.”

2. A creature that consumes books’ physical contents.

   “Once inside, they begin to mine; there may be apparently nothing wrong outside, but when you open the book you find a hollow filled with insects, which have eaten almost all the letterpress, up to the margins. By keeping the shelves away from the walls and giving a little attention to wormy volumes, the Library may be easily freed from this kind of Bibliophage.”