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    627 days ago

    Isn’t this post specifically about fiction? When we say that a person “reads”, it normally means fiction.

    I don’t see anything suggesting this is fiction only and I definitely don’t think “reads” means “reads fiction”.

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      -427 days ago

      What else do you read that can be measured in number of books? You wouldn’t do that for news articles, blog posts, or scientific papers. Cookbooks, textbooks and dictionaries are books, but you rarely read those from cover to cover, so you wouldn’t see people talking about the number of books they’ve read in that context.

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        427 days ago

        Did you forget that non-fiction exists as a genre? Biographies and memoirs are very popular, for example.

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          226 days ago

          Ah, right. Sorry about that. I’m just thinking through all the things I’ve read in the recent months and looking through my bookshelf. Seems our reading habits here are rather narrow.

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          226 days ago

          Sorry, I’m dumb. I do go to libraries quite often, but if I’m looking at the books, it’s to find something specific. I never browse the shelves.

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        126 days ago

        What else do you read that can be measured in number of books?

        Non fiction obviously? You know, books about the world and stuff. Recently I read Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harrari for instance. That is not fiction and it is a book.