- Spending all your left over income on books. After all the household bills have been taken care of any surplus is obviously book money, I mean who needs food, right?
- Collecting multiple free bookmarks. If a bookmark is being given away for free, you can guarantee a book-lover will happily accept one or three.
- Using any bit of scrap paper as a bookmark. This may include greeting cards, receipts, railway tickets, letters, etc.
- Buying more shelves so you can buy more books. Space is always the problem for bibliophiles, if there is space for more bookshelves then there is space for more books.
- Reading the book before watching the movie. This is a rule that all book-lovers follow, and if they don’t, they will definitely read the book after watching the movie.
- Falling in love with fictional characters. Book-lovers will definitely feeling a stronger sense of connection and understanding with fictional characters over real people.
- Having a growing TBR pile by the bed. There are just too many good books out there and our piles just continue to grow.
- Loving all book-themed accessories and apparel. Books on a bag, t-shirt, or pencil case? Yes please.
- Buying a book just because it’s pretty. Some books are just so marvellous on their own that you have to buy them so they can sit proudly on your shelves.
- Loving the smell of books and bookshops. There’s a comfort and familiarity when walking into a bookshop or opening a new book for the first time. You will hear readers exclaim out loud how they love the smell of books!
- Getting excited over super old books. Old books are amazing. The time and effort required to make books by hand is just incredible.
- Buying multiple copies of your favourite books. I am definitely guilty of this one. Sometimes you just need more than one copy, one to read, one to write in, one to keep in pristine condition, one with a fancy cover, etc.
- Wishing you could own and run your own bookshop. What book-lover doesn’t dream of being surrounded by books all day and earning a living from it?
- Possessively protecting dust-jackets. Dust-jackets are works of art nowadays that no one would want to destroy, but old dust-jackets on early editions can significantly increase the value of a book.
- Decorating your home with book-related art. If you can’t have the bookshop then you can definitely have the art all around your home, from framed pictures, to cushion covers, blankets and more.
- Spending hours in bookshops. If you’re out with a book-lover and they see a bookshop, expect to be waiting for them for a while.
- Collecting multiple notebooks. We don’t even write in them, we just like having them, as many as possible.
- Wanting to stay in book-themed Hotels or B&B’s. A room themed around books, where you can stay for a few days, is a book-lover’s dream holiday.
- Watching booktuber’s and reading book blogs. We must consult other book-lovers opinions, how else will we decide what books to buy and when?
- Writing honest and heart-felt book reviews about the books you love. If we love a book we will take the time to tell the world how much we loved it.
