Vocabulary: Tsundoku

[ysabetwordsmith]

Surround yourself with books you haven't read yet.

Sure I've read a lot of the thousands of books that line my house. I haven't read them all. It would be awful to need a book to read and not have a fresh one. I can pull a cookbook off the shelf for a long car ride, or poke through piles of things I picked up at a used book store that looked interesting.

Comments

[svnsettia]

lol, this made me feel slightly less bad about the fact that i just stacked my books so beautifully and delicately yesterday that i'll never be able to take one from the stack without having them all come tumbling down. i sort of just surrendered there because i knew that these were the books i'd never get to.

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is so awesome. You could totally give me that as a picture prompt in some fishbowl. :D

Don't feel bad. It took me several years before I could turn loose of any books, even ones I didn't even like. Eventually I managed to do it by cashing them out at a used bookstore and reserving the funds to buy new books in case I needed to replace anything I chucked out, or pick up a new reference. I'm a dragon; I hoard books; but I am sapient enough that I can sometimes work around the instinct to hold ALL THE BOOKS.

Re: Wow!

[acelightning73]

I can't read in the car - I get seriously carsick in a few minutes. Long rides when I'm not driving are BORING. I fool around trying to get something interesting on the radio, or I bring CDs if I remember.

[sixbeforelunch]

That is such a satisfying picture to look at :)

[adore]

Oh, this is a lovely word :3 validation for my book-buying choices!

[redsixwing]

積読 <3

This is a lovely perspective on the books I was just feeling bad for not having absorbed yet.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

To me it's a little slice of heaven. Literally, that's one of my favorite parts of the afterlife, the Library of all things that ever were or will be written. I haven't absorbed all of it, but not for lack of trying!

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[redsixwing]

Oh /lovely./

When I was a kid, I imagined heaven as unlimited time, a box of every colored pencil that never runs out, and a truly epic span of ...well, I can't quite call it paper, but material to draw and create upon.

As an adult, I've added on quite a bit. I'll happily weave the Library in, too.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>>When I was a kid, I imagined heaven as unlimited time, a box of every colored pencil that never runs out, and a truly epic span of ...well, I can't quite call it paper, but material to draw and create upon.<<

Sounds like the Drawing Room. And yeah, if we're thinking of the same stuff, it's light and flexible like paper, but it doesn't crumple, won't tear, and can't cut you. It's a composite of drawing materials that people remember. If you want the kind of paper you can cut and tear, it's in the more general Craft Room.

... yes, I've memorized a bunch of favorite places in the afterlife. Makes it easier to get people through the Door.

>>As an adult, I've added on quite a bit. I'll happily weave the Library in, too.<<

I have a big pen-and-ink rendering of it that someone drew. It was selling like hotcakes at a con.

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[redsixwing]

>> And yeah, if we're thinking of the same stuff, it's light and flexible like paper, but it doesn't crumple, won't tear, and can't cut you. <<

That's an eerily good description. :)

[cmcmck]

I tend to be a big re-reader so it's never an issue in a house with as many books as ours! :o)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I enjoy rereading too, but I still like to have new books.

[thewayne]

I have over 3,000 ebooks and probably bought over a half dozen last week. I'm fine, thanks for asking. :-)

A random selection from my reading heap

[badgermind]

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[ysabetwordsmith]

<3 bookpr0n. :D

I should make this an open invitation some time, I love seeing other people's bookshelves!

I don't often see other folks with an interest in magical theory.

Re: A random selection from my reading heap

[badgermind]

I am also a witch 🙂

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I am eclectic Pagan. If you're curious, our coven website is here:
http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/

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[badgermind]

I was a member of two Alexandrian covens, then hived to form my own. We are not active at present for combined family, health, and travel reasons, so I'm now a hedge witch. I've also been active in the Pagan Federation for about a decade, although that is winding down now I have moved to Scotland. I've just started to read your book on Composing Magic, which looks interesting.