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Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
(www.theguardian.com)
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A lot of books do irritate modern day readers, to say the least, and they need to contain no arsenic for that. Words are more than enough.
What would be the name for a quickly spreading allergy to words?
Logophobia on the usual principle of ancient greek word + 'phobia'.
It could be that but more than the discourse or the word it's to the written word they seem to be averse to. They don't mind words/talks, quite the contrary. To me it looks like they not do not read but more and more often express sincere hate toward books.