The Japanese word tsundoku means buying books and letting them pile up unread. The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the Meiji era (1868–1912) and has its origins in a pun. Tsundoku, which literally means reading pile, is written in Japanese as 積ん読. Tsunde oku means to let something pile up and is written 積んでおく. Some wag around the turn of the century swapped out that oku (おく) in tsunde oku for doku (読) – meaning to read. Then since tsunde doku is hard to say, the word got mushed together to form tsundoku.
Can any Japanese speakers in the audience tell me if there is an equivalent term for acquiring digital books and never getting around to reading them.
Travel Between The Pages 
If tsundoku is all I’m guilty of in life, I’m not doing too badly.
You’re more than likely guilty of other petty crimes 😆.
‘Fraid so 😉
I suppose I am a tsundoku. Earlier years, not at all. And I’m not proud of my current status either. 😞
Yes.
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