Okay, so neither Etymonline.com nor Merriam-Webster recognize this word as a real word.
But it IS, man. It is a REAL THING. You know it. I know it. The mug below certainly knows it. 😉
Abibliophobia. It’s a word that modern book-lovers have absolutely made up, using a mash-up of Greek roots, to mean something we all know exists.
a- meaning “lack.” Biblio meaning “book.” Phobia meaning “fear.”
A fear of running out of books.
Right?! And this is why we always have to buy more, even when our shelves are overflowing! 😉
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Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. Having successfully launched two homeschool grads, she now spends her time writing fiction, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years, as well as a fantasy series and contemporary mysteries and romances. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. 
I have abibliophobia in connection with long plane flights (it’s horrible running out of reading material halfway through a 12-hour flight!), but e-readers have helped a lot with that 🙂