For compulsive readers, two classics still retain their power today.

I am also a compulsive reader.

He was also a compulsive but disorganised reader of cosmogenia, classic and modern poetry, bullfighting and spiritualism.

As a child, she says, she was a compulsive reader.

Gerald calls himself a compulsive reader of food ingredient labels, appalled at both the contents of packaged foods and the ignorance of consumers.

The fact is I am a compulsive reader.

Ms. Campagna, 42, the library director, described herself as a "compulsive reader" of murder mysteries, romance and "really awful horror stuff."

With compulsive readers it's a tendency to bump into doors, not to mention a life-threatening accumulation of volumes.

Gun, the golden eagle, was a compulsive reader and was continually absorbing words.

A self-described compulsive reader of memorandums written levels below her, Ms. Barrett turned to Mr. Taylor in February 2001.