積読 (tsun-doku) is a relatively recent Japanese phrase meaning something like “buying loads of books and letting them pile up without reading them”.
The kanji:
積 (tsun)
Comes from 積んでおく(tsundéoku), meaning “to let something pile up”.
読 (doku)
Comes from 読書 (dokusho), meaning “reading”.
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