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Tsundoku
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.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく; "to pile things up ready for later and leave"), and dokusho (読書; "reading books").[citation needed] There are suggestions to use the word in the English language and include it in dictionaries like the Collins Dictionary.
The American author and bibliophile A. Edward Newton commented on a similar state in 1921.
In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the term "antilibrary", which was coined by Umberto Eco to characterize Jonathan Swift's description of a library in Gulliver's Travels and has been compared with tsundoku.
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Tsundoku
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.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく; "to pile things up ready for later and leave"), and dokusho (読書; "reading books").[citation needed] There are suggestions to use the word in the English language and include it in dictionaries like the Collins Dictionary.
The American author and bibliophile A. Edward Newton commented on a similar state in 1921.
In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the term "antilibrary", which was coined by Umberto Eco to characterize Jonathan Swift's description of a library in Gulliver's Travels and has been compared with tsundoku.