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I “read” on “the internet” to “make myself miserable”
It’s a doom-page-turner!
It’s gotten really silly but I’m too invested at this point
Maybe it’s just me but I lack the free time to get meaningful progress, if I’m lucky maybe 2-3 chapters a week by the time works and housekeeping is done. It often feels unrewarding to need to look back and remember the plot by the time I get back to the book
I loathe sluggish pace reading where I lose the plot inbetween sessions.
I love binge reading a book but rarely can.
I already read a gazillion emails, documents, specs, and whatnot and the same braincells are often cooked.Similarly, I just can’t deal with physical jigsaw anymore. Same braincells used in work-related pattern recognition in troubleshooting, that I find it unsatisfying.
Yes my issue is by the time i have time to read its nearly time to go to bed, and i find having the light on and staying in a comfortable reading position delays my sleep too much unless its something really dense, in which case i don’t end up retaining any of it.
Get yourself a kobo and both of those issues disappear. Also, you get free books if you are willing to sail the high seas, which is nice.
A decade ago I used to go through 3 books a week. Now I might read 3 a year. The world’s gone to such shit that fiction almost feels too quaint to be enjoyable. I know that’s not logical, but it’s how it feels…and it’s awful.
I used to burn through books, one Christmas my mum complained that she could’ve got a refund on a book I got if I hadn’t folded a page to keep track of where I was because I finished it by the time we were having dinner. Then school told me I was only allowed to read books from a certain reading level they’d given me for English class, and I had to complete an evaluation test to make sure I’d understood it before I could move up to the next level. I can barely get through 3 pages at a time now because that school program killing my love of reading.
If you’re a SciFi fan, read the expanse series. It’ll reinvigorate your love of reading again. At least, it did for me.
Unless you’re like my friend who read it with me, in which case you’ll finish it. Love it. And then mope about because you can’t find any books quite like it and is even less likely to pick up a book now because it’s not The Expanse.
They jist released the first book in a new series. Mercy of Gods.
They’ve got a novella in the same universe too!
Livesuit
He said today he plans to wait until it’s fully out and binge read 🙌🏼
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This is the second time I’ve seen Bobiverse mentioned. I might actually have to give it a go.
You can try the Old Man’s War series, The Three-Body Problem series, Children of Time. Lots of great sci-fi out there.
I’m realizing in my adulthood just how much school has hurt my impression of reading.
Throughout most of my life, I was so used to reading something and then having someone else explain it to me, that I never had the confidence to go off and read things on my own.
School sucks. We need a radical redesign
School also really killed my love of reading
I always had a book, sometimes several books, that I was reading on my own, and I read well above my grade level. But my high school went on a really big reading kick while I was there. Basically every class had books assigned to read at one point or another, I think even some of the math classes did. One homeroom period a week was dedicated to SSR (sustained silent reading) where you had to be reading something, you weren’t allowed to do homework, be on the computer, etc.
So they did a really great job of turning reading from something I genuinely really enjoyed to something that was a dreaded chore.
I still read occasionally, but nothing like I used to. Some of that’s being an adult with a busy schedule
But I definitely see plenty of space in my schedule where I could read and just don’t. It’s harder to get myself into the headspace where I want to read anymore.
I almost got myself back on track a few years ago, unfortunately it was just as COVID hit and I had just started reading The Road, which I was really enjoying, but with all of the shortages from supply lines being disrupted it was hitting a little too close to home.
I’m almost back on track now, but I doubt I’ll ever get back to where I was before high school murdered my love of reading.
Judging by your president, I think 40% fewer Americans read. For fun or otherwise.
I discovered AO3 2 years ago and have over 400 bookmakers that I’m actively reading when they update. Don’t worry everyone I’ll binge read for the rest of you
How do you even track over 400 completely different storylines & ships? This is an amazing feat.
By being interested.
Don’t ask about my 漫画 list. I have more WNs to read.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know. They’re not all active stories and often times the posts are like a chapter a month but I’ve got so many I’m reading at least one new chapter a day and reading another story or 2 that I’m binging
Yeah, we can tell…
Unfortunately it’s not just a US problem. It’s more of a general issue. People ‘read’ a lot, but generally the wrong things. Like social media. And it’s causing people to lose their ‘reading muscles’ so to speak.
When I first got online in 1995, forum posts were much longer and more insightful. These days you see a lot of ‘tl;dr’ attitudes.
In my opinion, reading is a fundamental part of the human experience and important in people’s general development. Reading needs to be encouraged if possible, enforced if necessary. But there’s a lot of resistance to that.
can you write a tldr for this pls
Internet bad.
My son, who is a voracious reader, mostly of classic literature (he’s a really smart guy), told me recently that there is a tiktok trend going around, complaining about people reading in public, calling them “performative readers.” In other words, they’re not really reading those books, they’re just pretending to read to show off. Now he seems a bit intimidated to be seen reading in public. I told him to ignore the idiots. They’re just people who can barely read, and think everybody is as stupid as them, so they must be faking the reading.
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Reclassify doom scrolling as recreational.
I solve problems people.
I started working sixty hours a week to make ends meet. Hard to spare the time.
We can’t extrapolate data from “Americans” to say “people in general” like this title does.
Americans and declining education is not a new phenomenon nor is it global. Americans are also not role models for anything.
Ah yes, the famous two countries in the world, the US and Denmark, our good old two-country world.
True, on the other hand US is often a canary indicator. Often, not always.
In general, I have heard many variations of “people don’t read anymore” soooo many times, I wonder why it’s still news. Yeah, people read less books, more blog posts, more stuff on the internet and so on. It has significant effects on long term information connection, creation and maintenance of neural patterns and so on. Either we restructure the internet or that’s how it’s going to go…
Since half of Americans are functionally illiterate, how would they read for fun?
I “read” a lot. Just audio books. I don’t usually get time to sit down and read, but I do a lot of driving and other mind numbing chores. For that, I “read”
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For anyone in the US that doesn’t know:
-You can sign up for your local public library online.
-Then download Libby or Hoopla.
-You can then check out books, including audio, and comics (I read all of Invincible and The Boys recently).
-They also have Movies, TV, and Music sections but I’m unfamiliar with them.
It’s great and free. More people should use it. Also, physically go to you library if you can. It’s a great resource and they have little clubs and get togethers if you are trying to meet people.
I don’t have the mental bandwidth to read Mich. I’m always exausted
