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Strongly interested in books or learning, sometimes more than in practical experience.

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bookish

The bookish visitor could happily spend an afternoon discussing unfamiliar authors.
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A bookish apprentice arrived at the weaving workshop with notebooks full of reading about cloth, though she had little experience using a loom.
From Learning a Craft Without Copying a Life.
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