"My tsundoku is a waiting room for all the versions of me who were convinced they'd have more time to read."
Tsundoku (積ん読) is a Japanese word that describes the habit of buying books (or otherwise acquiring them) and letting them pile up unread.
It's formed from:
tsunde (積んで) – "to stack" or "pile up"
oku (置く) – "to leave something as it is"
doku (読) – from "to read"
While often translated as "buying books and never reading them," the nuance is gentler. It doesn't necessarily imply you'll never read them—just that they've accumulated faster than you've had time to get to them.
