Wikipedia defines tsundoku (積ん読) as "the constant act of buying books, but never reading them." However, in his book 読書の腕前 (The Craft of Reading), 岡崎武志 (Takeshi Okazaki) notes, "If you look closely, you will see that 積ん読 includes the character for 'to read' (読む).
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A Reinterpretation of 積ん読 (tsundoku)
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Wikipedia defines tsundoku (積ん読) as "the constant act of buying books, but never reading them." However, in his book 読書の腕前 (The Craft of Reading), 岡崎武志 (Takeshi Okazaki) notes, "If you look closely, you will see that 積ん読 includes the character for 'to read' (読む).