/siberia/ - Off-topic

>The bookish man is a rare species. Case in point: 1.2 million people follow the @hotdudesreading Instagram.
I read a lot, I'm just ugly.

most normies cant even figure out what a pdf is lol

I just got around to jailbreaking my kindle white, and I gotta say, it's not much different from just having a kindle white.

>oh you can read epubs on koreader tho
You can automatically convert epubs to mobi through calibre tho

Guilty as charged. Last dozen novels I read are public domain or pirated. Libraries are cool but I am lazy.

I think the real reason for disparity is that video games are basically a substitute for novels as an escapist hobby.

>>771705
Men not reading as a topic crops up every few years and every time it is debunked as bullshit.

>>771706
this article isn't even claiming men don't read, it's making the more limited claim that STRAIGHT men don't read FICTION, and then on further inspection it shifts its own goalposts to STRAIGHT men don't BUY FICTION.

>>771706
The topic in question here is specifically fiction, which as far as I know men do lag behind.

>>771708
It is safe to assume buying heavily correlates with reading, pirating books is a niche activity.

I actually wanted to be a novelist when I was young but several things killed the dream:

1. Being told I wrote meandering pieces with no paint-by-numbers plot
   
2. Reading books on how to write novels and finding myself less creative than when I had no preconception of their being "rules"
   
3. Having to work for a living, then having a kid
   
4. Having my politics and my general life outlook change, making a lot of my original writing become dated and non-representative of myself
   
5. Authors are only successful these days if they have a massive social media presence, so that you spend more time marketing than writing
   
6. Learning that authors need to do book tours and signing events
   
7. AI slop saturating the market
   
8. Comrades telling me that novelist is a petty bourgeois parasitic job and having no rebuttal
   
9. Having to take care of my dying parents as well as my kids
   
   

At this point I've just come to terms that it's not gonna ever happen, and if it does it will be when I'm old and my kid is an adult and I don't have any dependents.

>>771709
>It is safe to assume buying heavily correlates with reading, pirating books is a niche activity.
In this economy?

>>771709
>as far as I know
How do you know this? Did you read it in some dumbass opinion piece with made up numbers and no citations?

>>771710
oh and i forgot

1. Readers don't even read your shit anyway, they just buy it to pose with it or decorate your house with it

>>771713
leftypol does markup lists now like reddit so I type 10 and it renders it as 1. wow. thanks for the "correction"

I'm a woman and exclusively read BBC NTR yaoi

>>771710
> Comrades telling me that novelist is a petty bourgeois parasitic job and having no rebuttal
Sounds like your "comrades" aren't even your friend. Lmao.

>>771720
based gigastacy

>>771699
They’re not looking at the type of novels that men read vs women read

>>771699
FACT: Reading (the right things) makes you smarter
<lmao@ some roastie who thinks she's smart cuz she reads harry potter and 50 shades of grey
FACT: There exists out there some slack-jawed ape who thinks that reading is effeminate and gay
FACT: Men are born to hunt and build and fuck, and reading novels detracts from those things. If I can read a documentation on how to build or repair something, then that makes sense, and there is a point to the reading. If I can read an instruction manual on how to do better pelvic floor exercises and strengthen my dick until I can do the dick pushups in the world, then that makes sense and the reading has a point. If I can read something that will tell me how to pick up chicks, or how to baste a turkey, or how to be gud at fishing, then that makes sense, and my time isn't wasted in reading those things.
FACT: Most fiction is boring and needlessly verbose
FACT: Very few authors are worth reading anyway
FACT: Movies, anime, tv, and vidya are just better pass times
FACT: women cringe at dudes who spend all their time in the library, even if they say things like
>oh chad I wish you were smarter and we could actually have conversati–
as she's being railed
Don't hate me for having the right perspective :3~

>>771769
>FACT: Reading (the right things) makes you smarter
Not me or you, that's for sure.

>my time isn't wasted in reading those things.
It is.

People read tons of books about how to do this or that and yet continue to not do them. Maybe the only difference between reading fiction and non-fiction is that the non-fiction is usually even more badly written than the fiction.