5 ms·
Tsundoku – Phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up
- winwang 3y agoAdding to my wikipedia reading list, thanks
- herewulf 3y agoFinally one word to describe my HN tabs.
- Olshansky 3y agoHaha, exactly
- theGeatZhopa 3y agoWhat's the phenomenon called where one acquire watching materials but let it pile up too?
- coldtea 3y agoBoth are a kind of hoarding...
- mikhailfranco 3y agoeutuberculosis?
- RetroTechie 3y agoPrepping for apocalypse where the internet goes down.
- Quinzel 3y agoI was actually going to come on here and literally ask: “What’s it called if you actually read the reading materials you’ve acquired?” And then I realised the answer would simply be “Reading”.
- jogu 3y agoKnowing both English and Japanese it's fascinating to see what Japanese words the English speaking world finds interesting. All sources seem to point back to the 2014 article by Jonathan Crow. In essence I see this as the equivalent of "backlog" in most cases, i.e. (my backlog) is piling up. And is otherwise a fairly straight forward concept to convey in English. Hardly "untranslatable", and seems rather silly to import a word that's more or less a pun that would be lost upon all of the people using it. One thing the English wikipedia doesn't mention is that 積んでおく (tsundeoku) has a contraction/slang form 積んどく (tsundoku) which I think solidifies the play on words to create 積読.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- cushpush 3y ago積んでおくか？勉強になりました！ (it's a contraction? I learned something!)
- sphars 3y agoNow I need a term specifically for my Steam library. Hoarding is definitely correct in my case, but needs to be more eloquent
- epilys 3y agoCorrelated with ADHD perhaps? It's common to pile up "to do lists" that grow faster than one can handle.
- cushpush 3y agoI have been practicing Tsundoku since before I could read well.
- catlover76 3y agothis is me ;__; Things like Pocket are enablers of this bad habit, though the blame still ultimately lies with me and my moral deficiencies. I do it with physical books too, but to a lesser extent.