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THE Grumpy Old Nurse GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
@polarisera How can an adult read zero books in a year*? This just does not compute.

*I mean, if you're shipwrecked, or held hostage, or in a coma, sure. But just a regular human walking around having a job and stuff?

Feart n Tired 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
@GrumpyOldNurse @polarisera it's not hard if you think facebook etc is 'reading' and the rest of your life is also a screen.

THE Grumpy Old Nurse GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
@FeartnTired @polarisera I mean, my kindle is where I go for escapist reading, and it shows at least 150 titles per year. This doesn't include 'real' books that I also read, for brain improvement. How does someone NOT read??? By choice?

HebrideanUltraTerfHecate HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz

@GrumpyOldNurse @FeartnTired @polarisera I know! Shriek!

THE Grumpy Old Nurse GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
@HebrideanHecate @FeartnTired @polarisera I hope my CSIS handler doesn't write up my psych eval based solely on my Kindle reads.

Oh, wait! I do hope they do!! Yeah...

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@GrumpyOldNurse @HebrideanHecate @FeartnTired I remember they asked Steve Jobs back in the day why he wasn't interested in ebooks and competing with Amazon/kindle. He stated a stat just like this, it's remarkably constant. Americans don't read, but they sure do listen to music.

sj_zero sj_zero
I made a conscious decision to start reading again a few years back, but prior to that I read hardly at all. There's a limited number of hours in the day, and it's a habit that you need to get into.

I do have to admit most of the stuff that I read is absolute trash. But it's trash that I find entertaining, and unfortunately a lot of Western media really doesn't seem to care about whether something is entertaining or not. (And to an extent I guess I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic -- I hope people find Future sepsis entertaining when I publish it later this year, but I do have to admit I'm writing it because it's a story I'm enjoying telling, rather than a story that I know someone else will enjoy reading)

HebrideanUltraTerfHecate HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz

@sj_zero @polarisera @FeartnTired @GrumpyOldNurse I don't read as much as I used to because my shortsightedness got much worse and now also have dry eyes, I find reading propped up in bed the most comfortable way now, my favourite reading place back home was chair in front of the Rayburn with my boots propped up on the rail at the front of it. But these days I need the damn thing almost shoved up my nose to see it properly.

sj_zero sj_zero
Kindle is perfect for me because I travel a lot for work and carrying 162 paperbacks with me isn't practical for either me or the poor airport security, but I try to read dead tree books to my son at home because there's something iconic about reading from a thick leather bound hardcover book.

I guess I'd have to move to audio books if I couldn't read anymore. Short form media kind of loses it's luster.
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