Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers

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?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What would be the name for a quickly spreading allergy to words?

Conservativism?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Conservativism?

If only ;)

Alas, I see that allergy spreading absolutely everywhere and more and more people calling on book (and author) banning for whatever 'good' reason they may have. That's a dangerous allergy, akin to the allergy to the 'other', that may very well be fatal to any democracy no matter the political side one stands for.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Logophobia on the usual principle of ancient greek word + 'phobia'.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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.

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