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Why some people collect books they never read

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Your towering stacks of unread novels are not a sign of intellect, but rather a delightfully specific hoarding problem. Bibliomania is an obsessive-compulsive symptom involving the endless collecting of books that serve no practical use to the buyer. It is the pursuit of possessing knowledge as physical trophies, completely skipping the arduous step of actually acquiring it.

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