I've been doing the "goodreads challenge" since 2018 -- really I just use goodreads to keep track of books I've read, so the site is an adjunct to an activity I

I've been doing the "goodreads challenge" since 2018 -- really I just use goodreads to keep track of books I've read, so the site is an adjunct to an activity I'd probably do anyway. I read 20-30 books a year and it's a sobering thought that the number of books I'll get to with the rest of my life is probably less than a thousand. The toxic gamification is probably where booktok or goodreads become the primary activity and book reading is what you do to achieve goals on those sites. I guess I never had to deal with that since I'm middle aged and these sites weren't around when I was a teenager.