book paralysis

It could happen to you. Certainly's happened to me. Generally comes right before or after a case of Legiostimulus, otherwise known as Bibliophile's Tic, wherein the patient exposed to a large quantity of books feels compelled to consider every cover and read every flap-blurb until sensory overload is complete. Symptoms generally include fingering book spines, assessment of cover typography, the passage of several hours within one place which to the patient is experienced as sheer minutes of time, merging of different book plots, and the ability to know the location of more specific titles than the Borders' restock guy.