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[[Image:Carl Spitzweg 021.jpg|thumb|''The Bookworm'', 1850.]] A '''bookworm''' is an avid reader of books. The term comes from the notion that such people spend as much time "with their head in a book" as do the worms which live on them. |
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* [[Bookworm (insect)]], a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books |
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Revision as of 17:21, 18 October 2006
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A bookworm is an avid reader of books. The term comes from the notion that such people spend as much time "with their head in a book" as do the worms which live on them.
Other usages
Bookworm may also refer to:
- Bookworm (insect), a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books
- Bookworm (comics), a comic strip in the Whoopee!, and later Whizzer and Chips, comic books
- Bookworm (game), word-forming puzzle video game by PopCap Games
- Bookworm, a radio show on literature hosted by Michael Silverblatt on KCRW
- The Bookworm, a painting by German painter Carl Spitzweg
- .303 Bookworm, a fictional Discworld creature
- Bookworm, a puppet on the Australian kids TV programme The Book Place
See also
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bookworm.
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