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The Obsession of Obtaining a Unique Book

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May 25, 2020 at 7:30:00 PM

The Obsession of Obtaining a Unique Book

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Jan mellström

How fascinating words can be? Of many words, the word Tsundoku is one of them, which has a root that goes way back to the Meiji era of Japan, and can be found on texts as early as 1879. Tsundoku is the habit of acquiring reading material and stacking them up but, not reading them.
Whereas, Bibliomania is the title of a 19th-century novel that explores, the act of being unable to stop collecting literature.
People with bibliomania are carried away with the obsession of obtaining unique books such as first editions or series.

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