A bad case of Tsundoku.

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Emily

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Jul 26, 2018
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I've been suffering from this chronic condition for most of my life. I think it started off with a now-battered, dog-eared and still-read BFG by Roald Dahl when I was eight. We recently built on a big, new room... the prospective bookshelves were part of the initial design to hold the then-overflow. Six months later, and much enjoyable accumulating, I'm thinking: :oops:

But I expect I'm not alone and in excellent Tsundoku company here... right?! :)
 
I’ve always been an avid reader and have spent my life collecting books, mostly the classics and reference and scholarly books about Shakespeare and the Bible. I’m sure I must have over a thousand books, and with my several bookcases, we call one room of the house “the library.” However, with the electronic age, I find that I very rarely consult my bookshelves, or even re-read anything from it. And now—oh dread—my wife is wanting me to dust off all my books, and pull out the bookcases to vacuum (“Hoover”) behind them. Honestly, besides for looks, I’m thinking of dumping the majority of my book collection, especially since we’ll be moving again in a few years. :confused:
 
Ah @Rainbird. Your bug must be catching because ever since October I've been buying books like the world depends on it. I've lost count how many, but my e-reader now runs so slow I can barely use it. Luckily, turns out there's a way around that little problem: I've started getting hard copies, and oops, I have currently over 10 physical books waiting to be read. No idea which titles are still waiting for me on my e-reader. Ok, I'd better put myself on self-quaranteen to stay away from all book selling establishments (my finances will thank me). So next time you come round, please wear a face mask. Thank you.
 
I'm quite good at not book-hoarding...but I think that's because I'm a school librarian! When I want to read another book, I sign one out for myself and put it back afterwards.

Basically, I'm borrowing the school's shelves for my TBR collection :D
Wow, I didn't know that was your job. Wonderful. I was the student librarian at my high school since we didn't have enough of a library, or a budget to employ a real librarian. I studied the Dewey Decimal System and made up library cards for all 27 of our books. I guarded them jealously and cleaned them daily. No book was allowed to leave the room except in the hands of one of the teachers. The beauty of having that job was that I was given a key to the room so I could stay as long as I wanted after school was finished. I used to stay for hours, reading and enjoying the wonder of electricity. I still want to be a librarian when I grow up.:heart:
 
Even second-hand ones will do!
Oh, gosh yes! Nothing I love more than a second-hand bookshop!! I used to live in Galway (west of Ireland) and we had the most wonderful second hand/publishers overstock/antiquarian bookshop called Charlie Byrnes. It was bliss. I spent many full afternoons in there. (And I met Martin Sheen in there once! He was studying in Galway Uni and he helped my then-toddler down some steps. We had a grand old chat and then he blessed me and all my family (!!) before wandering off. I thought he was a bit of a hobo (he looked like one) but a familiar-sounding hobo. It was only when he left that the whole shop, who, in Irish-fashion completely ignored him - became animated and told me who he was :)
I’m thinking of dumping the majority of my book collection
Ah now... One must cease such sacrilegious, scurrilous contemplation at once. My heart bleeds for those unwitting volumes of delight.
Your bug must be catching
It's a GREAT bug, in fairness
So next time you come round, please wear a face mask. Thank you.
I'll try. I've been making a prototype with kitchen paper and elastic bands. Looks very "Blue Peter" (@KateESal ;) ;) Having checked out BP, I'm trying to refrain from starting a toilet-roll-insert collection like the one I had when I was ten. It was impressive. But sadly, my mother took issue with the fact it spilled out from under my bed (I was always an addictive personality from which abundance followed to bolster said addictions) but more so because I was bringing home rolls from random bathrooms. I now see her point.)
I still want to be a librarian when I grow up.
ME TOO!!!!!!!
Now back to piles on windowsills. It's a law.
True. And those are the only kind of laws worth keeping.
Which of course means there'll be room for NEW books afterwards!
Yippee!!!!!!!!
 
Surely they’re what shelves are made for?? Plus they’ve the added advantage of making you look clever - and if they’re often competing for space with comics, like mine are, immature :D
When considering a change of abode, I check the capacity of each wall with a doorway to ensure it has the holding capacity to be a wall of bookshelves, over the door, ceiling high, with a floorboard. If it doesn't meet my specs, I don't want to live there. Every wall with a door, including the front door (although the laundry might only get mags or comics).
What is life without a story hanging out close by? (and I include non-fiction in there, for what is reality but the story told from a specific perspective?)
 
I've accrued 60 paperbacks in the last few months, thanks to my local charity shop having a three for £1 sale. Then, the library returned to selling withdrawn stock, so I've acquired twenty more titles in hardback. I'm glad the Cornwall Libraries are doing this again, as they went through several years of selling old stock to book disposal businesses who pulped them! :(

As it is now, I have 80 books waiting for my attention...so much stored potential! They stand in four piles, my digital alarm clock atop one pile. I've largely resisted the temptation to order them, though one pile is crime stories. After all, we are all librarians.
 
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