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#1 by StgBria
When you've eaten all you can and you can't eat any more, you're full, but what do you call the same thing when you can't read anymore? 

After sorting through the slush pile of new stories and reading twenty chapters of mostly crap, what do you call it when you can't physically read another word?
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#2 by Llamadragon
Tired.
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#3 by Tejoka
A lie. You can always read more. peoEsmile
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#4 by Ararara
 Overread is the best I can come up with

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#5 by JenifryConan
Reading fatigue is one I've always used.
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#6 by utsuro

StgBria Wrote: After sorting through the slush pile of new stories and reading twenty chapters of mostly crap, what do you call it when you can't physically read another word?

Disappointment? Nihilism? Enervation? Malaise? Dilatoriness? Otiosity? Fainéance? Hebetude?


I have no idea.
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#7 by TheLeakingPen
I often refer to it as a book hangover, or, my brain is full. https%3A%2F%2Fmiro.medium.com%2Fmax%2F403%2F1*zmHKAM...JS7pg.jpeg
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#8 by Llamadragon

TheLeakingPen Wrote: I often refer to it as a book hangover

oh i like this one
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#9 by gej302
On the physical side: 
I call that asleep, or perhaps blindfolded.

Now, the non-physical side:
ill-literate
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#10 by parkertallan
When in doubt fall back on Latin and Greek

biblioplenus

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#11 by StgBria
Book Hangover. . . . bookover?
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#12 by fallstaffmacd
Word-weary.

A play on "world-weary", except, you know, wordy.
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parkertallan Wrote: When in doubt fall back on Latin and Greek

biblioplenus

Sounds WAY too close to book-penis.
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#14 by MarikoRawralton
Tsundoku is the Japanese term for buying books and letting them pile up, but never getting around to reading them.

So like... the opposite of that.
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#15 by Ararara
EVERYONE LISTEN, I THINK I'VE GOT IT

The word is ...

...

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Overbooked!!!
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#16 by Lime_Lover
Literary oversaturation?
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#17 by flssdd
readen - (archaic or dialect) past participle of read

I'm readen. 
It has a nice ring to it and it's good enough
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