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Tsundoku

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The act of buying books but not reading them. An accidental collection of books1, in contrast to bibliomania which revolves around owning books for their tangible beauty.

Books were once a luxury, so reading them was coupled tightly.

Footnotes

  1. BBC News. “Tsundoku: The Art of Buying Books and Never Reading Them,” July 29, 2018, sec. World. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013. ↩