積讀家(적독가)

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies. In his book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose writes of an uncle, a Bronx garment worker who "spent much of the Great Depression reading classics in translation from The Merchant of Venice to Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.”