One well known digital equivalent would be Steam Libraries. Not books, but also famous for accumulating endless "perhaps one day" (and surely less romanticized).
On the topic of books, my reading effectively stopped when I started reading an "entered the public domain" piece from the kindle app. Without realizing that in print it would be a one foot anthology. Unwilling to give up but also unwilling to press on. Wouldn't have happened in print.
On the topic of books, my reading effectively stopped when I started reading an "entered the public domain" piece from the kindle app. Without realizing that in print it would be a one foot anthology. Unwilling to give up but also unwilling to press on. Wouldn't have happened in print.