We've all done it, bought an item that we have absolutely no intention to use but use it to try and impress guests or someone else. I'm sure I'm not the only person that does it with books
On my Kindle I have heaps of books that I'll probably never read, I use the excuse that I might need them sometime for quotations though I doubt I'll ever need to quote Dante, Milton or Virgil
The book that I have got that I'm least likely to read, well it's probably a tie between The Canterbury Tales and The Wealth of Nations.