Just unsubbed from the books sub because they are dishonest and hostile
A lot of people there claimed to read absurd amount of books. Like 200+ a year despite claiming to have a full time job and active social life and whatever. Now If you are unemployed or retired and do nothing else than reading I might believe 200 in a year.
But 200 with a full time job and/or kids? No way. Never mind the claims of 300+ or even 400+.
When I uttered my scepticism, most of these people admitted that they just listen to audiobooks while they do something else.Often at 2x speed. I told them that thats not reading and that they just delude themselves and others.
- Obviously listening to someone reading a book to you is not reading. You are not reading you are listening.
- When you do other things while listening to A-books you are not really paying attention. Someone claimed to read and answer Emails at work while listening to A-books and claimed to take "everything in"... sure buddy.
- When you are reading you are doing something by yourself. When you get read a book, its a passive activity, like listening to music or a podcast as background noise. Also these things are not the same. Its 10x more difficult to convey complicated statistics and formulas through listening than through reading because obviously these things are not the same. Thats why there are very few educational A-books.
These people just want to count A-books as "reading" so that they can stroke their fragile ego and claim how great they are for "reading" so many books. Naturally with foam before they mouths they tried to equate the two as being the absolute same with no difference whatsoever. Some even screamed "you are gatekeeping what reading is".
I got downvoted into oblivion because I dared to give a reality check to these people. Thats when I had to unsub.