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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
On a kindle discussion list I follow, we were asked our opinion of social reading. As an introvert, I find the whole concept of social reading to be baffling. I find I don't really care what other people highlight in a book (when I got my Paperwhite, one of the first things I did was turn off popular highlights).
Is all this social reading supposed to make reading more attractive to extroverts ? (Hey, reading is *cool* - you don't have to be a four-eyed geek to like to read!) Is it seen really as a way to sell more books, to hasten new book discovery?
Somehow, being an introvert is seen as being un-American, I think. Is it so in other countries?
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Actually I've always thought of being an introvert as being very much American. To be an introvert is to go it alone rather than in a large group, and the history of how the U.S. was settled is the history of the introvert. For that matter most of the discoveries of the past were done by introverts. Galileo, Kepler, Einstein, while the rest of humanity went on their merry way like always these men and others like them paved the way for our present.