For a bibliophile, nothing is more comforting than the sweet escape of a book. You look for magic in every aspect of reality and never give up on dreams. You put up with the ignorance of Muggles and the disrespect towards of books common among Mundanes. You can’t wait for the day your favorite character sweeps you away to Hogwarts or Velaris and you live happily ever after. Perhaps your imagination has gone wild (or just your TBR pile), but one thing’s for sure, you're not alone in your book-lover struggles.

1. Your TBR pile never ends

New releases appear so much faster than you could possibly read them. Oh well.

2. An E-Book just isn’t the same

Your shelf may be overflowing, but it’s so beautiful to admire on a daily basis.

3. The movie is never as good as the book

The main actor is so not how you pictured the main character in your head.

4. You sacrifice sleep for some reading time

Only one hundred more pages . . . you can do it. Read now and sleep later.

5. You can’t stand lending your books to people

Not after that one incident. Never again will you let someone borrow your most prized possessions.

6. Most of your best friends are fictional

Those are the people you know best, the ones who never get on your nerves or treat you wrong.

7. You badly want to visit a place that doesn’t exist

From Hogwarts to the Shadow World to the Night Court, anywhere would be better than reality.

8. No one quite understands your obsessions

Why can’t people just accept that a book escape will always be better than Netflix?

9. Waiting for the sequel is so painful

Especially after that cliffhanger, how are you supposed to live for an entire year?

10. You can’t help binge-buying

You definitely need that shiny new addition, even if you have three copies already.

11. Your favorite author is everything

When her tour won’t come to your city, you consider flying across the country just to meet her.

12. So many books, so little time

You look forward to lazy days, reading the day away and catching up on your favorite books.

Perhaps no one will ever understand our struggles as avid book-lovers. However, we can rest assured that we aren’t the only people with book-buying problems or an unhealthy obsession with fictional characters. Keep holding on for the day your Hogwarts acceptance letter finally arrives in the mail.