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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Social Media isn't killing the Literature Star.
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This.
Also there are Readers and Readers. People look for different things in their reading. I recall discussing reading with an adult when I was a teenager (so very pre-internet) and being shocked that this person, who read a lot of novels, admitted that their usual approach to fiction was "scan the descriptive passages until [he] came to the next section of dialogue". This, he said, came from being forced to read Dickens as a child. He just didn't get much from long flowery descriptions*.
Neither for that matter do I. My horror came more from my neurotic gut feeling that if you don't read every word then you haven't really read it!
(*his words not mine. I've never really read Dickens. He's on my TBR but it's long)