I too find a six-sentence long wikipedia article to be "hacker" "news".
Tsundoku
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#32I don't really think this word is actually a thing that Japanese people really say. The Japanese wikipedia version of this article is also a stub, and there's only 550K results in Japanese google, which is pretty much identical to the amount if you search "Tsundoku" in English. If you search for the phrase in hiragana only, the results become even less at 75K.
Since the phenomenon itself does definitely exist and there is no single word for it (that I know) I am all for using tsundoku for it :)
Right down there in the other "Book Collecting" articles it literally says:
> Bibliomania (tsundoku)
There very clearly is a word for it. Bibliomania.
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#33Somewhat related; when a friend bought his first home, he filled bookshelves in the living room with books that were popular in his circles as part of decorating and a means of social manipulation. He never had and likely never will read any of them, it was primarily an attempt to buy social favor with guests. He'd just say he had a poor memory for books he read long ago whenever someone tried discussing them at a ho…
It used to be possible to buy just the back covers of the full encyclopedia Britannica. Just for that reason.
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#34Hobbyists use GAS for a similar practice. It stands for Gear Acquisition Syndrome where you buy much more hobby-related gear that you can use. Photography, electronics and electronic music are some hobbies particularly known for this.
ugh just reminded me of all the money I dumped into modular synths
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#35I don't really think this word is actually a thing that Japanese people really say. The Japanese wikipedia version of this article is also a stub, and there's only 550K results in Japanese google, which is pretty much identical to the amount if you search "Tsundoku" in English. If you search for the phrase in hiragana only, the results become even less at 75K.
It's mostly used in the kanji version (積読 or 積ん読) (7m+ results).
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#36I don't really think this word is actually a thing that Japanese people really say. The Japanese wikipedia version of this article is also a stub, and there's only 550K results in Japanese google, which is pretty much identical to the amount if you search "Tsundoku" in English. If you search for the phrase in hiragana only, the results become even less at 75K.
I was willing to believe it was real because it reminded me of a word actually used by Japanese: tachiyomi, which means "standing reading". A.k.a. what manga fans do in the bookstore, reading manga right there in the aisles and attracting the ire of the bookstore owner.
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#37This is me and HN. I save so many articles to Pocket but only are ever fully read.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's weird that something that is meant to be entertainment can become a chore (videogames and hobbies for instance). Is it merely because we are tired or because there is another activity available that is so low energy that it becomes more desirable in comparison (e.g., watching Netflix, mindlessly browsing the internet)? Sometimes I wonder... if none of those activities were available in my house, what would I do…
This question is highly relevant to me. I recently got a small bonus at work with the interesting stipulation that I couldn't take it in cash. (Basically, they let you expense something on the company card for personal use.) I've been getting back into making music so I wanted to spend it on something fun related to that. And this triggered a surprisingly intense amount of anxiety where I found it really hard to deci…
>This question is highly relevant to me. I recently got a small bonus at work with the interesting stipulation that I couldn't take it in cash. (Basically, they let you expense something on the company card for personal use.)
That sounds like tax evasion
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#39I usually buy books all excited about a topic I love (history or behavioral economics etc.) but they just pile up. Work pressure and exhaustion during the week and family stuff on the weekend is overwhelming any reading time :(
I am in the same boat, but have been making a conscious effort to get more reading in. Just squeezing time here and there. Waking up earlier in the morning, before bed when I had been winding down with YouTube videos or piddling on the internet, toliet trips. In the end it takes longer to finsh by reading fewer pages at a time, but it is working at actually reading more.
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#40As much as I like to buy books I have realized it is much more economical to just check it out from the library.