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Originally Posted by catadams
In fact, my addiction is very strange. But I love to read, and the addiction is that I am constantly buying new books. Even without reading the ones I have. And this happens all the time, if I don't buy at least 2 books a week, I'll feel really bad.
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That's intimately familiar territory, though with age I cut down the buying part. Since I'm a college prof I have a bit of a budget for books that I need for research. But I only got worse: instead I visit the giveaway shelves of various libraries, academic libraries, street libraries, any libraries. This way I scratch the book-hoarding itch but also don't feel bad about having to dispose of them when I accept I don't really need them.