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Book Addiction Has a Word: Tsundoku

Posted on October 4, 2020March 19, 2024 by Chris Kincaid

I love books and suffer from a mild case of tsundoku. Tsundoku is the Japanese word for the tendency to buy books and not read them. My books clump together in great piles that mock me for not reading them fast enough. Of course, I come home from the library with books that I have…

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