Mark Olson wrote on the Smofs list: “A few years ago, I asked George Flynn (our resident expert on ancient languages) what the word was for an unreasoning fear of not having something to read. His answer, ‘The word you want is “abibliophobia,” but it’s not an unreasonable fear.'”
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How about 16 hours with nothing to read?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/25/TREQ1043QJ.DTL
Y’know, reading about somebody else experiencing tedium is no great improvement over personally experiencing it.