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Here you go! It's so many of us 😀 —

"Tsundoku" (積ん読) — Japanese word for "the practice of buying a lot of books and keeping them in a pile because you intend to read them but have not done so yet; also used to refer to the pile itself"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tsundoku

I first encountered the word on the old, now sad site, in a tweet from Rob Macfarlane, who is a wonderfully thoughtful nature writer (& more) —a sample: https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane

Guilty as charged!! 📚 😂 

Have a great day.😀

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 @b5cdaf1a The same with film lovers :) 
 @b5cdaf1a... & wake up exhausted 'cause couldn't put that mystery book down all night‼️ 
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.. a shelf of special books within an arm's reach that one can take a-hold of and open at random and read any passage at any time. 
 @b5cdaf1a Sadly I do all of these.
I don't want to be cured though. 
 @b5cdaf1a One of the reasons I married my spouse is that we both realized we'd be happy with each other on a deserted island, as long as it had a library. 
 @b5cdaf1a Yes! Clever cartoon that *gets* book lovers. 😄 
 @b5cdaf1a @69368ddd "Finish every book you pick up" doesn't seem to be on here. Hmmmm. I'll be darn. 
 @b5cdaf1a my friends and wife cannot understand how I read multiple books at once!

last tandem read was Cannery Row backed with Einstein's Universe: Gravity at Work and Play 
 @b5cdaf1a But you're not ... 
 @b5cdaf1a @a663bedc This is basically a mood chart of my life #stunned 
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Nine for nine. 😉😁