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Plenty of people still read and read a lot. I also have other hobbies, but I don't think it's going away. There are more books being published than ever before.
by 7thaccount 1y ago
Plenty of people still read and read a lot. I also have other hobbies, but I don't think it's going away. There are more books being published than ever before. There are also genres like science fiction and fantasy that are HUGE now and were once much smaller.
- perching_aix 1y agoI mean happy for you, but that's a bit of a non sequitur, isn't it? The thread we're in is literally called "The cultural decline of literary fiction", and none of what you say is actually mutually exclusive with that.
- int_19h 1y agoIndeed, it's about the decline of literary fiction - a very specific subset of literature that comprises a tiny part of fiction, nevermind the totality of all literature. People still read books, just not these particular books.
- 7thaccount 1y agoAgreed. Sorry for getting off topic. I interpreted some of the comments as veering off into talking about the decline of literature as a whole.