bibliophobia

English

Noun

bibliophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of books.
   • 1818, Religio Christiani, a Churchman's Answer to Religio Clerici, quoted in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1818, page 345:

     […] yet even he could not stand against that sin when temporarily infected with the poison of Bibliophobia.

   • 1963, John B. Nicholson, “A Disease Known as Bibliophobia”, in Reading and the Art of Librarianship^[1], ISBN 086656585X, published 1986, page 10:

     What a tragic illness bibliophobia is!

   • 2008, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation^[2], ISBN 1585426393, page 67:

     E-literacy derives not from bibliophobia, then, but from the miraculous and evolving advent of digital technology, the Information Age and the Electronic Word.