A part of Friday's chat：金曜ワークショップ

参加者１名につき、チャットとなりました。　ひとつの話題で7分も話してる　笑

With only one participant, it turned into a chat. We've been talking about a single topic for 17 minutes, haha!

Question

-If asked whether it’s necessary or not, it’s not necessary,but if asked whether it’s trash or not, it’s definitely not trash.　Can you share your story?

Chat

9:13 - Participant:

Sure, that’s an interesting question.

 For me, I love reading books. I buy more books than most people, so I have a lot on my   shelves. But my wife doesn’t understand why I need so many.

 She says,"you have so many books piled up on the bookshelf, but do you really need all of   them? You’re not even reading them at all, are you?"

  But I said to her, “No, those books are very important to me. Someday, I’ll read them.”

10:39 - Facilitator: Ah, so it’s a tsundoku situation.

10:44 - Participant: Exactly. In Japanese, tsundoku is a habit I have, but my wife doesn’t                    understand.

11:04 - Facilitator:I totally understand! Thank you for sharing.It happens a lot. Sometimes,                based on the title or the book cover, you think it’ll be interesting. But once you start                reading, if it’s not a page-turner, you stop and put it on the shelf. It happens a lot,                    and I get it.

11:42 - Participant:How about you? For example, novels—do you read books by authors 

            like Higashino Keigo or Miyajima Mina?

    Higashino Keigo or Miyajima Mina?

12:01 - Facilitator:Yes, I have!

12:02 - Participant: For instance, if someone asks me how I read or what I read, I usually 

            reply that once I finish a novel, that’s it.

12:31 - Facilitator:Ah, I see.

12:33 - Participant:

            My wife makes a complaint "Novels are something you read only once, so why do 

            you buy them? You don’t really have to, do you?"

12:51 - Facilitator: Well, I kind of understand. There are books I love but haven’t finished yet. 

            For example, I have one I stopped reading after the first episode. It’s been sitting on 

            the shelf so long that it’s dusty now, but I still love it.People have told me to throw it 

            away, but I can’t. I’ll never throw it away. So I understand your situation, but as a 

            housewife, I also understand your wife’s perspective.

14:08 - Participant:Right. For her, those books are like trash.

14:17 - Facilitator:Definitely.

14:20 - Participant:She wants me to take them to a secondhand bookstore, like Book Off.

14:29 - Facilitator: Book Off?

14:29 - Participant: Yes, I’ve sold some books there.

14:34 - Facilitator: I often buy books online from Book Off. They’re so cheap—220 yen for a 

            paperback!

14:51 - Participant: It’s really cheap.

14:52 - Facilitator: Yeah, I end up buying 10 books at a time. But then my bookshelf gets 

            full, and it’s a vicious circle.

15:10 - Participant:But selling books at Book Off is annoying.Sometimes, when I sell books 

            there, they only give me 50 yen for everything.

15:39 - Facilitator: Yeah, that happens.

15:41 - Participant: It’s really cheap.

15:49 - Facilitator: Since we sold our car two years ago because of COVID, taking books to 

            Book Off is inconvenient. If they only offer 50 yen, it doesn’t even cover the 

            transportation fee. So I just don’t go.

16:30 - Participant: Yeah, that makes sense.