Be-read it or not

 

Sun 11/6

The first records of the word bookworm come from the late 1500s. The word was first used to refer to people who read a lot, often as an insult. In a work by English author Ben Jonson, a bookworme (as he spelled it) is described as a candle-waster.   

The booklouse is a wingless insect that often lives among books and papers and is known to feed on the binding paste used to hold some books together.