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Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good
['Michelle Spear', 'The Conversation']
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The term describes the habit of acquiring books and allowing them to accumulate unread.
An unread book is a good example.
This may explain why a pile of unread books feels so different from a pile of unanswered emails.
Unanswered emails are future obligations, whereas unread books are future rewards.
Long before a book is read, the experience of finding it is already becoming associated with pleasure.