There are worse things than not reading a book. Buying a book and not reading it would be one of those.Heaven forfend! This is an essential action for anyone with a sound relationship to books, and 'a library of unread books', or at least a collection with many unread books, is an altogether normal state of affairs. Nor do you need a 'lifetime reading plan' that will allow you 'to eventually plow through every single one of them'. All you need is the Winston Churchill attitude - as recorded in this article. I reckon the author knows it, really.