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Originally Posted By: etaoinOriginally Posted By: The PookThere is no single word that means to read by flashlight.
try this Librocubicularist
"All right," said the bookseller amiably. "Miss Chapman, you take the book up with you and read it in bed if you want to. Are you a librocubicularist?"
Titania looked a little scandalized.
"It's all right, my dear," said Helen. "He only means are you fond of reading in bed. I've been waiting to hear him work that word into the conversation. He made it up, and he's immensely proud of it."
- Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
-joe (topically apt) friday
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