bibliophile

noun

Etymology: First attested in 1820. From biblio- + -phile (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”)), probably after French bibliophile.

1. One who loves books.

   “A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.”

   “[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...”

2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
3. One who loves the Bible.

   “So, just for fun, here are the versions of Romans 1:26-27. Now don't go assuming jsmith@epas.utoronto.ca must be some kind of great bibliophile because he got all these old versions together. They're all in one place, the _New Testament Octapla_ by Luther Weigle, and I added a few of my own texts from my library; took me only a few minutes to type them.”

   “I dont^([sic]) consider myself a bibliophile....I just think it is God's word.”