Bibliomaniac: Obsession with books; an extreme fondness for books, especially the collecting of them. A Noun

Bibliomania: An exaggerated preoccupation with the acquisition and ownership of books, or excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books

This group is dedicated to all the book lovers in the world! Those of you that have read more than beauty magazines, and self help books. This assembly of learned individuals is for collectors and readers, obsessive and not so obsessive. To bring a culmination of knowledge and understanding of the written word! Share insight and experiences that you have had while immersed in the wonders of ink on paper.

Do you have information on certain books, and ideas for beginner collectors? Come in and discuss the tricks of the trade! If you have a favorite series by all means discuss it here!

If you have found a rare book and want to get an opinion about it's worth, this is the group for you! BOOK LOVERS UNITE!

I have my own eBay store selling books! Check out my store and browse through my shelves! I also post guides and reviews on ebay, take a look if you like there is some helpfull information. The links are blow:

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www.bookfinder.com

www.bookthink.com

Flight of the Imagination

http://www.librarything.com

http://bookcrossing

http://www.bookins.com/

TED Ideas Worth Spreading

QUOTES

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things."

--Plato

"The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think."

--Søren Kierkegaard

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."

-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom."

--Jean-Paul Sartre

"It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one."
--Balzac

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places."
--Mark Twain

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
--Mark Twain

" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

--Barbara Tuchman:

"True influence over another comes not from a moment's eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes."

Thornton Wilder

"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read.
But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
-- Lily Tomlin

"Master books, but do not let them master you. -
Read to live, not live to read. "

-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it."

--Simone Weil

"Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught. "

-- Oscar Wilde

"WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY I BUY BOOKS; AND IF ANY IS LEFT, I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES."

--ERASMUS