Exhausted And Everlasting Excitement

The caption of the blog implies that the last excitement is over but I am writing about it as per the prompt.

Our Company gives us Gift Cards once every year. Last few years it pertained to one particular shop. We all cribbed about how expensive the outlet was and with limited choice.

This year the Card had wider options of usage for any online shopping. I immediately registered it for some book buying on Amazon. For bookworms ( am not exactly one), I guess buying books is as exciting as reading. For me the former is more as the idea of having so many to read is more exhilarating than the actual process of reading.

Anyhow, that was the first phase of excitement. The second one came as a serendipitous find this morning when one of my former seniors sent me this WhatsApp message related to books, reading and words.

I am a lover of words. Naturally, this message on uncommon ones that too related to reading excited me to no end. I thought it was relevant to this prompt The post will not be complete without the WhatsApp which is an add-on and therefore appended below:

“Many of us would have (probably) not known these interesting facts, related to books. I most certainly did not. Good to know there are words for feelings that are known only to book lovers.

1. Dog’s ear – While reading a book we fold the corner of the page.
2. Librocubicularist – The person who reads books lying on the bed.
3. Epeolatry – A person who worships words. Tries to string out the sweetness from every word.
4. Logophile – A person who is fascinated with words.
5. Bibliosmia – The smell of old books.
6. Book bosomed – A person who cannot stay a moment without books.
7. Omnilegent – A person who reads all types of books, without judging the subject.
8. BallyCumber – Books which are half read.
9. Tsundoku – A Japanese word. There is no English word for it. This means that after purchase, the book was not opened even once.
10. Princep – The first printed copy of any book.
11. Sesquipedalian – A word which has many syllables, such as ses/qui/pe/da/li/an.
12. Colophon – The spine of the book, or where the publisher’s logo is seen.
13. Bibliclasm – To spoil a book knowingly.
14. Fascile – Part. 1st part, 2nd part etc. A book which is published in many parts, such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford Dictionary etc.
15. Afficted – After reading a book, if a person feels like crying at the end, but is unable to do so.
16. Bookklempt – When you have finished reading the last episode and you know that there is no other episode to read, but you are unable to digest this truth.
17. Chaptigue – The tired feeling, which you get in the morning, after reading a book for the whole night.
18. Delitrium – The good feeling which you get from the smell of a newly purchased book.
19. Madgedy – Repeatedly reading a sad story & hoping that the end will be different.
20. Mehnertia – After reading a book for some time & then reading it from the start all over again, because you forgot what you were reading.
21. Rageammed – When you tell your friends to read a book, which you liked and they inform you that they have already read the book and they did not like it.
22. Swapshame – The condition, when after reading a book for some time, you think that there was another book which you liked and you are in a dilemma which one to read first.”

Isn’t it exciting to know so many new words! This excitement is everlasting!!

I am a librocubicularist but a little disappointed as in the above list of words there’s none for the one who goes off to sleep while reading holding the book or device tightly in hand in a reading position only the ear splitting snores giving away that the reader has been transported to some other world!!!🫣🫣🫣

Do you have a one word for that in your lingo. If yes, do let me know. 🤔🤔🤔

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