書しょ淫いん

noun

bibliophilia; bookworm

Refers to a person who loves books deeply, often to an excessive degree. A literary term, rarely used in everyday conversation.

• 彼かれは書しょ淫いんで、部屋へや中じゅうが本ほんで埋うまっている。

  He is a bookworm, and his room is filled with books.

noun

bibliomania; bibliomaniac

A more intense, almost pathological obsession with collecting or reading books. Even rarer than sense 1; mainly encountered in literary or historical contexts.

• 書しょ淫いんともなると、読よむこと自じ体たいが目もく的てきになってしまう。

  When one becomes a bibliomaniac, reading itself becomes the goal.