Book collector
Book collecting is the collection of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books interest a given collector. The love of books is bibliophilia. Someone who loves to read, admire, and collects books is often called a bibliophile but can also be known as a bibliolater, meaning being overly devoted to books, or a bookman, which is another term for a person who has a love of books.
Book collecting can be easy and inexpensive: there are millions of new and used books and thousands of bookstores, including online booksellers such as Abebooks, Alibris, Amazon.com, and Bibliocuriosa. Books can be collected in audio format through websites such as Audible, Google Audiobooks, Librivox, Kobo Audiobooks, and Downpour. Users can access an extensive library of books at any time using a phone, tablet, or computer. Just like hard copy books, audiobooks can be accumulated over many years. Wealthy book collectors pursue great rarities such as the "Gutenberg Bible" and "Shakespeare's First Folio," books which are both famous and extremely valuable. Collectors of lesser means may collect works by a favorite author, first editions of modern authors, or books on a given subject. Book prices generally depend on the demand for a given edition, the number of copies available, and a book's condition. For example, a first edition, “And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street,” can reach the price of 12,000 dollars in the best condition. Some collectors join associations such as "The Fine Press Book Association", aimed at collectors of modern fine printing. "The Private Libraries Association" also covers modern fine printing but is much more general in its outlook.
See also [ Bibliophilia ]
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