"librovore" meaning in English

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          "text": "Jim Shields, the well-known bibliophag (or shall we say librovore), tells us that at 1303 North Second street he has seen the following sign, well-made and neatly painted: When Alliterations Are Completed, etc.",
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          "ref": "1922 July, The Rotarian: The Magazine of Service, page 33, column 1:",
          "text": "Like any honest bibliophag—or shall I say librovore—I can never see anyone reading a book without a passion to find out, by means foul or fair, what it is. So I stopped and said, “Well, Sister, what are you reading?”",
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          "ref": "1938, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 19, page 21, column 2:",
          "text": "Slogans remind us, Logan Pearsall Smith’s Unforgotten Years has been postponed until the New Year: but you can put in the time reading Mr. Smith’s Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton written long ago but recently revived among a few librovores.",
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          "ref": "1997 August 22, Paul Vincent, “Re: \"A message in Mime Format\"”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <5tkqt8$pb5$1@despair.u-net.com>:",
          "text": "I see it this way: When I was a kid I was bookish, extremely literate for my age, the usual cliched embryonic SF reader. Of course, the oiks didn't want to know about me, and those that did only wanted to beat me up. So I avoided the thickos and sought my own kind. When I think of \"kids when I was a kid\", I'm thinking of those relatively smart librovores that I mixed with.",
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          "ref": "2010 May 6, “Kindle upgrade adds Facebook and Twitter”, in International Bali Post, page 13:",
          "text": "What will die-hard librovores — which make up the Kindle faithful — think of their beloved e-reader suddenly becoming more computer than book?",
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        "Synonym of bookworm"
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          "word": "book lover"
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