Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol

At busy times, I find I simply cannot read as much as I would like to. Life has a habit of filling every available hour with work, meetings, emails, chores, errands and deadlines. Standing in one of my natural habitats – a bookshop – it is frustrating to see so many things I want to read while knowing I do not have the time.

My usual consolation is to buy the book anyway and let a small, satisfying pile build up, looking ahead to the next quieter stretch when I might finally open them. It is oddly satisfying. Some might call this clutter. The Japanese have a far more elegant word for…

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