Book-lover is such a simple term, so boring. I’d rather be called a bookworm or even a savant. Here are 10 reasons that you, a bibliophile, can be categorised as a book-lover:
- For you,window shopping for books can be done three ways- the bookstore window, Amazon’s window, and looking through the car window for the vendor at the traffic-signal.
- You’d win a challenge to tell the difference between a book from the library and a new book from the store, not judging by the cover, but purely from its fragrance.
- You are either one of those who must start budgeting for books in your monthly expenditure or you are the one who thinks they must now stop downloading from torrents. (PRO TIP- Gutenberg.org)
- If you have a favourite author, you’ve read all of their books, be it Chetan Bhagat or Malcolm Gladwell or any in between. Or you’ve read both at the same time with equal fervour.
- You can never seem to part with your own books, even if a child asks for them. But will look for every occasion to gift them- from birthdays to house-warmings.
- You don’t purchase bookmarks- because those can be anything- from a ticket to the long trip, to the leaf from next to the garden bench, to money from your pocket or just about anything ‘in-between’.
- The feel of a page turn gives you a momentary sense of comfort- even on a screen.
- You’ve re-read Harry Potter; because the movies are never as good.
- You have hoarded books everywhere, and storage is always an issue, even with books on your device.
- Your well-preserved hard-bounds are the best thing you think your children will inherit, just as you’ve inherited from your father.
Which of these prove you are a book lover? And what else proves that you are a bookworm? Let me know!
And as a bonus, here’s a picture of me trying to be a kid again.
Shais17 
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