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tsundoku but for maker stuff, when you acquire equipment and a growing inventory of parts for projects faster than you actually make or even learn to use anything... much worse than for books, since every part is also a small learning project
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to my credit, I've been wary of this from the beginning about 10 months ago, and if anything probably erred on the side of too much caution in building up store, but I can sense how this can go out-of-control easily if you're not somewhat self-aware
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one reason this is, or used to be, primarily a middle-aged vulnerability is that collecting and not using equipment and parts used to overall be more expensive than collecting and not reading books, but that's changed radically
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cheap parts you might use in quantity and buy in bags, like resistors, are roughly like mass-market paperbacks in cost. Slightly more expensive parts and typical non-smart tools are like trade paperbacks. Things like boards and cheap measurement equipment get into hardcover range
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Beyond that of course, you can get into things that are way more expensive than ordinary books and are more like collector's items range. But now it's all still cheap enough that you can get into it when young and poor, like with books. Not a strong used-things market though.
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