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as one so afflicted, here's a group for people who use books for mail art purposes or even just labor under the yoke of book addiction, those yearning masses who amass books intended for reading but which, mostly just pile up.

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Vertical or horizontal? 3 Replies

What is better, to have a Tsundoku pile or line up your books along a shelf? My Tsundoku are on the top of my chest of drawers, but I have also a smaller collection on a pile inside a bookcase. I…Continue

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Mail Art Martha Jan 10, 2021.

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Comment by Ficus strangulensis on July 19, 2022 at 1:16pm: Hmmmmm. We may have to move our living area out onto the porch.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on June 10, 2022 at 12:18pm: All the way from Tasmania, from Pam Parks.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on March 11, 2022 at 8:00pm: Oops! I made a mistake, this book was meant for this group and went to Ficus new group about the war, sorry, the special operations in Ukraine.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on March 11, 2022 at 7:55pm: I could only destroy or mailartify, depending on point of view, really bad books. Any written by Vlad the Great for example

Comment by Mike Parsons on March 11, 2022 at 11:09am: Tsundoku - Saw a post to an IUoMA group about your love of reading. I enjoy reading too. Also enjoy library and planned parenthood book sales .. seeing books as a source for art supplies .. to create envelopes and other mail art .. even creating altered books. Is this in your wheelhouse? Some ppl can't stand to destroy a book like this.? - Smilin Mike

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on October 29, 2021 at 11:00am: Luis Filipe Gomes illustrates his life as a reader!

Comment by Jeff Bagato on February 6, 2021 at 4:49pm: pages I did for Attic Zine assembling magazine, issue #12, Orange 1

Comment by Mail Art Martha on January 9, 2021 at 5:45pm: Janus sent me a postcard with a page from a book stuck on one side and on the other instructions to add my view on it. Obviously ideal for this group. The page is from Candida by Bernard Shaw.

By the way I am reading the Pickwick papers at the moment. Very funny and full of turns of phrases, something I much enjoy.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on November 9, 2020 at 4:00pm: here's a tsundoku link I found today online in someone's "pocket"

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tsundoku-the-art-of-buying-books...

Comment by Jenn Miltenberger on May 22, 2020 at 2:20am: Perhaps I'm in the right place. I'm heavily inspired by things I read and old books. My husband has been libraries for all his adult life. He used to be in charge of weeding material at his previous branch, so I received many great books with damaged spines that they weren't allowed to sell/give to the public.

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