Why this word is great
BOOKHOARD — [Noun] A personal collection of books, considered a private treasure. A modern revival and calque of Old English bōchord, from bōc ("book") + hord ("hoard, treasure"). Unlike a library, which implies a public, ordered institution for dissemination, or an archive, which denotes a curated collection of historical record, a bookhoard is a private, accretive trove, valued more for its personal resonance than its systematic utility. It is the gravitational pull of unread novels on a bowed shelf, the faint, compound scent of glue and foxed paper, and the specific heft of a tote bag growing heavier with each secondhand find—a fortress built volume by volume against the quiet entropy of an empty mind, the physical proof that a person can be haunted not by ghosts, but by potential.