Tsundoku – Phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up

Knowing 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.

I 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”.

Adding to my wikipedia reading list, thanks

I have been practicing Tsundoku since before I could read well.

Now I need a term specifically for my Steam library. Hoarding is definitely correct in my case, but needs to be more eloquent

Correlated with ADHD perhaps? It's common to pile up "to do lists" that grow faster than one can handle.

Finally one word to describe my HN tabs.

What's the phenomenon called where one acquire watching materials but let it pile up too?

this 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.