The Sword and Laser discussion

Tsundoku is a Japanese word that kinda-sorta — ok, totally — describes me, if I’m honest.

“The art of buying books and never reading them”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013

Maybe you’ve seen my TBR pile from 7 years ago: https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...

I’m afraid it’s probably only gotten bigger.

At least you could see them. There are many people with their own digital abyss :D

I bought 6 Japanese books when I lived in Japan, despite the fact that my Japanese isn't good enough to make out more than 10% of each, and that's a generous estimate. I just couldn't resist them!

I’m not usually *that* bad at this - I get through everything in my TBR pile (both virtual and physical) eventually.
However I have gone into a bit of a panic-buying spiral lately and it’s all got a bit out of control...

Ruth wrote: "I’m not usually *that* bad at this - I get through everything in my TBR pile (both virtual and physical) eventually.
However I have gone into a bit of a panic-buying spiral lately and it’s all got ..."

I’m glad you at least have your priorities correct, no hoarding toilet paper, or groceries, but reading material on the other hand. ;-)

John (Nevets) wrote: "Ruth wrote
However I have gone into a bit of a panic-buying spiral lately
I’m glad you at least have your priorities correct, no hoarding toilet paper, or groceries, but reading material on the other hand. ;-)"

Well in an emergency I can always rip out the pages of a book I’ve already read and use it to wipe my bum, but if I run out of books, I can’t read toilet paper!

I used to do that and then everything got so dusty in my house. I gave most of the books away and now try to use digital books or library. I do miss the stacks...but go to local used book store to get that feeling.

Though funny story between my husband and I we bought 4 copies of Red Mars - and I am sure to this day neither of us have read it.

Calvey wrote: "Though funny story between my husband and I we bought 4 copies of Red Mars - and I am sure to this day neither of us have read it."

Oh, I’ve done that, too. In fact, in the photo I linked above you can see two copies of Hard Spell, which I’ve still not read.

Sometimes I get an urge to a read a book I know I have, but it's lost in a pile of books or packed up in a box buried beneath other boxes full of books, so I just find an ebook edition. I wonder if I'll ever see those lost books again?

Mark wrote: "Sometimes I get an urge to a read a book I know I have, but it's lost in a pile of books or packed up in a box buried beneath other boxes full of books, so I just find an ebook edition. I wonder if..."

I just moved my mother-in-law from her house in Cincinnati to an apartment in New Hampshire. Trust me when I tell you that you will eventually see everything you own again. You will find things you didn’t know you had. You will hate every single one of those items.

Me. The kindle helps to hide it.

I somehow managed to stop doing this - though I do bring home lots of library books and carry them back 3 weeks later unread.

What's the Japanese word for "buying" too many ebooks that are being given away for free to help us out while we are social-distancing/self-isolating/under-quarantine? Asking for a friend.

“eHoarding.”

D'oh! And I can't use ebooks as TP.

Mark wrote: "D'oh! And I can't use ebooks as TP."

You can, but you will need to wash and disinfect the eReader after you've finished ;-)