bibliophobia

English

Etymology

From biblio- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

bibliophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear or dislike 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], published 1986, →ISBN, page 10:

     What a tragic illness bibliophobia is!

   • 2008, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation‎^[2], →ISBN, 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.

Translations

fear or dislike of books

• French: bibliophobie (fr) f
• German: Bbibliophobie f
• Portuguese: bibliofobia f