Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books.
1783, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin‎, page 16From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. ... This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
1996, Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy‎, page 50Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
