Tsundoku : The Japanese Art of Collecting Books International institutions and happiness

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Tsundoku : The Japanese Art of Collecting Books International institutions and happinessAuthor: Pym, Taiki Raito Asia Published on 2 April 2026 by Octopus Publishing Group (Cassell) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 208 pages 222 x 142 x 21 300g An ode to the quiet joy of collecting more books than we could ever possibly read and loving them all the same Drawing on the evocative Japanese term tsundoku first coined in the Meiji era to describe the growing stacks of unread books that accumulate around devoted readers this insightful and