[jdtang13]

I don't really think this word is actually a thing that Japanese people really say.

The Japanese wikipedia version of this article is also a stub, and there's only 550K results in Japanese google, which is pretty much identical to the amount if you search "Tsundoku" in English. If you search for the phrase in hiragana only, the results become even less at 75K.

[tyurok]

It's mostly used in the kanji version (積読 or 積ん読) (7m+ results).

[bitwize]

I was willing to believe it was real because it reminded me of a word actually used by Japanese: tachiyomi, which means "standing reading". A.k.a. what manga fans do in the bookstore, reading manga right there in the aisles and attracting the ire of the bookstore owner.

[praptak]

Since the phenomenon itself does definitely exist and there is no single word for it (that I know) I am all for using tsundoku for it :)

[mdszy]

Right down there in the other "Book Collecting" articles it literally says:

> Bibliomania (tsundoku)

There very clearly is a word for it. Bibliomania.

[lopan]

Oxford says bibliomania = passionate enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books. It doesn't say anything about whether you read them or not.