Shock, Awe: People Not Actually Reading Books They Buy

There's a Japanese word for buying book bus never reading them: tsundoku.

Not to pretend I'm some cultured woman, the word is just trending because the act of book buying but not reading is on the rise.

Obviously. If you're buying physical copies of books, those are for decoration. It's 2022. If we were gonna read them, we'd download it on our phone.


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