Library of unread books? - There's a name for that.

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/buy-books-never-read-them-110017166.html

Buy Books And Never Read Them? There's A Japanese Term For That.

.... What is tsundoku? ....

“Tsundoku today is used as a noun meaning the habit or state of piling up books with the intention ― sometimes fulfilled, sometimes not ― of reading them later,” said Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, a linguist specializing in historical and Japanese linguistics and assistant teaching professor of Japanese studies at Carnegie Mellon University. “The term originates from the verb phrase tsunde-oku (積んでおく ) , literally ‘to pile something up and leave it there.’”

“When I read Japanese blogs and social media, I do see tsundoku used in positive, neutral, and negative contexts,” Fujinaga-Gordon said. “There are cases where it conveys mild shame or guilt, and others where it’s used humorously or even proudly as a sign of intellectual curiosity.” ....

Outside Japan, the term tsundoku has resonated with readers who see their book piles not as failures but as potential ― a concept echoed by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. He famously kept a vast library with tens of thousands of books, mostly unread, and coined the term “anti[-]library,” which was later popularized by essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

The underlying idea is that a collection of unread books can show curiosity, humility and ambition in the face of knowledge. It’s a monument not to what you already know, but to the infinite things you don’t. ....

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