Bibliokleptomania

Bibliocleptomania (biblio-klepto-mania, English bibliocleptomaniac) is a personality disorder (a disorder at the level of dissocial discrepancy), characterized by a passion for reading literature and a simultaneous desire to steal rare and valuable books from public libraries to which it has free access, and even the homes of its victims to satisfy their manic needs with the “need for suffering.” Collectibles can also be stolen from specialized marketplaces that distribute rare books. The hobby can progress so much that there is a need to steal more expensive property.

In most cases, biblioceptomania manifests itself as an addiction to literature, complemented by an expressed manic desire for personal enrichment through the illegal acquisition or appropriation of books, their purchase or sale at significantly higher prices than those they actually cost.

Bibliocleptomaniacs are so engrossed in book plots that they not only engage in illegal reading themselves, but also travel around the country, taking advantage of the opportunity to get cheaper books. As a rule, a bibliomaniac experiences an uncontrollable craving for rare and most valuable books; such people consider a rare literary work to be a text that they are unable to purchase for open sale due to lack of print or for other reasons (for example, a lost set).

Bibliocleptomaniacs are people who steal books. Sometimes it seems that they really have things in short supply, because they are expensive things. Moreover, people engage in theft for a specific purpose, but at the same time one cannot dare to call them immoral, they are too skillful. Perhaps one of the main conditions for the absence of conscience is when you don’t know why you are stealing and why you need all this. We can say with confidence that a person lives by this, it becomes his main vital need.