積ん読 (tsundoku, n.) — The Japanese practice of acquiring books, films, or other media and letting them pile up, unread or unwatched. From tsunde (to stack) + oku (to leave for later) + doku (reading). Not a failure of intention — a record of curiosity.
A snapshot of the full collection as of 2026 — books, comics, TTRPGs, movies, and a vast visual reference archive. The CSVs in vault/tsundoku-2026/ cover the reading and gaming side; the broader collection extends across streaming services, a 700+ app library, and 667k+ images on an iPhone Air (1TB).
Total cataloged items (CSVs only): ~5,357
kindle_books_clean.csv) — 2,743 titlesAll but one are Purchased (one Borrowed). Genre breakdown based on sampled titles:
kindle_comics_clean.csv) — 343 titlesAll Purchased. Western comics focus:
other/books_catalog.csv) — 552 PDFsStored on external SSD (/Volumes/Extreme SSD/dropbox/). Split into three categories:
other/ttrpg_catalog.csv) — 1,720 PDFsAlso on external SSD. Extremely broad collection organized by system:
| System | Count |
|---|---|
| D&D 5E | 610 |
| Pathfinder | 316 |
| System Agnostic | 100 |
| Iron Kingdoms | 68 |
| Pathfinder 2E | 64 |
| 13th Age | 53 |
| Cyberpunk Red | 49 |
| Numenera | 38 |
| Daggerheart | 22 |
| Witcher TTRPG | 13 |
Content type breakdown:
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Sourcebook | 946 |
| Preview | 320 |
| Patreon | 102 |
| Archived | 99 |
| Setting | 66 |
| Playtest | 59 |
| Adventure | 43 |
| Guide | 25 |
| Bestiary | 9 |
Notable indie/Kickstarter systems with significant coverage: Draco (35), Otherscape (32), So Many Robots (31), SHIFT RPG (24), Chronicles of Runes (16), Zaman's Guide (15), Moonsoon (14). The large Preview/Patreon counts suggest active crowdfunding support for RPG projects.
Not a photo library — a concept art collection. Built up over years of browsing Twitter, Pinterest, and ArtStation, this archive is a curated visual vocabulary spanning SF, fantasy, cyberpunk, creature design, character art, and environmental worldbuilding. It lives on a 1TB iPhone Air and represents the same collecting impulse as the rest of the pile, just expressed visually.
The through-line is obvious in retrospect: the CreatureBox sketchbooks, the Deus Ex and Horizon art books, the Appleseed/Shirow manga, the D&D illustrated guides — the image archive is the same interest at a much larger scale. Concept art is the connective tissue between the worlds being read about, played in, and watched.
The concept art interest extends into the physical world. Richard owns several original lithographs by Syd Mead — the industrial designer and visual futurist whose work defined the visual language of cinematic cyberpunk and hard SF (Blade Runner, TRON, Aliens, Johnny Mnemonic).
Three pieces in the collection:
Mead's aesthetic — machines that feel alive, purposeful, and already slightly worn-in — is a direct ancestor of the cyberpunk and SF visual vocabulary that runs through the rest of the collection.
Two physical books also worth noting:
Spread across multiple streaming services. Not yet cataloged in detail, but consistent with the broader SF/fantasy/action orientation of the collection.
The collection is deeply genre-consistent across every medium. Military SF, cyberpunk, D&D-adjacent fiction, and software architecture dominate the reading pile. The TTRPG catalog is exceptionally broad with active crowdfunding support. The visual archive ties it all together — a 667k-image concept art library that reflects the same worldbuilding sensibility running through the books, games, and films.
At 2,743 Kindle titles alone, this is genuinely tsundoku-scale — the Japanese concept of acquiring books faster than you can read them. Extend that to every other medium and it's a portrait of someone who collects worlds.