A customer browsing for books at independent store Lit Books in Petaling Jaya in late 2020. Photo: Filepic Tsundoku is a term that refers to the accumulation of books without ever leafing through them. This Japanese term appeared in the 19th century and is still relevant today.
Because despite the increase in book sales in many regions of the world, the stress caused by the global health crisis may have played havoc with the concentration abilities of would-be readers.
In Japanese, tsundoku refers to the pile of books in your library that you have never read. It comes from Japanese slang of the late 19th and early 20th century and the contraction of tsunde-oku (stacking things set aside for later use) and dokusho (reading).
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