Are people taking my posts as judgmental? Maybe I’m writing them very poorly. It’s entirely fine to mostly or only read books that one finds comfortable and eas

Are people taking my posts as judgmental? Maybe I’m writing them very poorly. It’s entirely fine to mostly or only read books that one finds comfortable and easy. That’s what most people do for most things, not just reading, as you point out. Most people are bad at most things. That’s how… things work. And it’s OK. [edit] and, moreover, not everyone who can deeply appreciate acid jazz or whatever avoids listening to top 40s hits. That might even be most of what they listen to. To be clear, not everyone who reads easy books can’t read more challenging ones, and preferring easier ones is fine. My entire point was just that reading-is-necessarily-better is both wrong and a bit snobby, and that failing to read in a way that lives up to that cohort’s suppositions is entirely OK—reading can be taken off that bizarre pedestal and it’s still a fine activity.