Why this word is great
BIBLIOPHILIST — [Noun] A person whose passion lies in the love and collection of books, with a particular focus on fine or rare editions as objects of aesthetic and scholarly appreciation. Formed within English by compounding the combining form biblio- (from Greek biblion, "book") and the combining form -philist (from Greek -philēs, "loving"). Unlike a bibliomaniac, whose obsession verges on the pathological and acquisitive, or a bibliopole, whose relationship to the volume is strictly mercantile, the bibliophilist is a curator of tangible history. It is the deliberate heft of a Morocco-bound quarto, the patient appraisal of foxing on a page’s edge, and the faint, almond-like scent of old paper held close in a quiet study—a quiet communion with the object as a crafted vessel, acknowledging that the most profound reverence is often for the container, not the thing contained.