Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.
blackhaj7•54m ago
Nice!
Taleb calls it the anti-library
yulker•14m ago
Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book
treetalker•6m ago
Research tool!
f1shy•3m ago
This is what I do. When I see a free PDF that seems well written, or was suggested to me, I save it in the bucket “maybe someday I might need that” but l know I will 99% never read. My experience is that it is useful. At least 10 books that were deep in that bucket were useful for me, and ended reading them. I must have 10000 though.
dunham•38m ago
do pdfs count?
% mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l
11116
(2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)
piskov•59m ago
blackhaj7•54m ago
Taleb calls it the anti-library
yulker•14m ago
treetalker•6m ago
f1shy•3m ago
dunham•38m ago