3 ms·

The question is whether reading: - an entire novel worth of short texts, beginning to end - an entire novel worth of short excerpts from longer texts - an en

• Kim_Bruning 10mo ago
  Oh, are you responding to my examples? * Last angel: A web serial, sure it's chunked into chapters/updates, but paper novels have chapters too. * The Wandering inn, same as above, it's at 2 million+ words and counting. People read it. * The Martian: Actually the shortest text of the bunch. Now available as a traditional paper novel.
  • fgh_azer 10mo ago
    I am not responding to the examples, and I am not challenging the claim that famous vs not famous author does not matter, or that dead tree vs screen does not matter; I am raising the question whether it's just a quantity issue ("Just so long as they read", "entire novels worth of text"). Is it? I am not sure either way. Do you lose something by only reading chapters of a novel but never the whole story from the beginning to the end, even if you're still reading the same amount?