Word: bibliokleptomania
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Lawrence S. Thompson's Notes on Bibliokleptomania, an informative "review of centuries of thievery" which shows that neither age nor instruction can reform the absent-minded book borrower or save the true bibliophile from the temptation to pick up and pocket volumes that catch his fancy. One of history's most eminent bibliokleptomaniacs seems to have been Cardinal Pamfili (who later became Pope Innocent X). Charged one day with book-lifting from a private library, the book-loving Cardinal denied the charge with such fury that-the stolen volume fell from beneath his robes with a resounding crash...
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