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Originally Posted by Katsunami
True enough... I have many hobbies, reading being just one of them. My normal reading time is in public transport, but due to Covid-19 I've been working from home for nearly two years.... so I read less, I've noticed.
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I've found the same thing. Mind you, I have started to pick up the pace a bit now - there was a 6-month period last year when I only read work-related stuff and news articles, and spent most of my time doing a reconciliation between Calibre and Librarything, especially public domain works where I'd just stuck an ebook tag on the print copy record. Not a good idea, especially for translated works, where the translator wasn't the same.
I've found in general I don't read Victorian authors. Quite apart from the wordiness, I find the mawkish sentimentality cloying, and don't care much for sententiousness.
I do try and finish books, but sometimes it takes months. I very rarely abandon books willingly - I don't think I'm going to finish a particular review book before it expires unless I do nothing else tonight. Nothing wrong with it, just not much happening and a bit on the YA side for my tastes.