English is very utilitarian language, and it can lack the nuance of other languages. For example, there is a Japanese word tsundoku. It means buying a book, but not reading it. These are books that pile up with other unread books. I can relate to this word. I have boxes of these books. They were all so full of promise when I bought them. Now I avoid this by getting books from the library. There’s less investment in these stacking up, but it is also harder to go back and read them later. After I’ve long since returned them.
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