One day not long ago, I was drinking a cup of tea and, being the inveterate reader that I am, I read the saying on the teabag.

We both hated television and were inveterate readers.

Gravelot himself was an inveterate, even obsessive reader; his brother's Éloge reports that he would take a small volume to bed with him, in case of insomnia.

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He is a gardener, an amateur poet, a heavy smoker and an inveterate reader of newspapers.

An inveterate reader could spend hours with these pages.

Jefferson was an inveterate reader of newspapers, and he didn't mind reading the boys the columns of basketball statistics in the Times.

Many are inveterate readers, using books not to connect with the larger world beyond but to shut themselves away inside their own heads.

To an inveterate reader this has been a privilege.

A more telling explanation can be found in the references in many of his letters and speeches: Lincoln was an inveterate reader with a retentive memory.