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Paper Bound Solace

(Photo mine.)
 

book·worm/ˈbo͝okˌwərm/

Noun:
  1. A person devoted to reading.
  2. The larva of a wood-boring beetle that feeds on the paper and glue in books.
  3. A person devoted to reading who begins, in both physical and virtual worlds, to resemble a wood-boring beetle that feeds on the paper and glue, margins and type, quote and blurb, jacket and spine, colour and smell, shape and size, heft and height of books.

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