JA WestenbergMar 2
I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.
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@Daojoan
There was a Polish social campaign that stated “You don't read I'm not going to bed with you.”

https://nieczytasz.pl/o-nas

(Supposedly based on a John Waters quote that I couldn't find a primary source for on a glance.)

Edit: I misremembered the exact slogan of the campaign having “books” in it.
Referring generally to reading, not just books, is a better stance.

Najbardziej niepokorna kampania promująca czytelnictwo!

Kochamy książki miłością prawie że fizyczną. Chcemy zachęcać do odkrywania czytania na nowo – tym razem w kontekście nieco erotycznym. Bo przecież nie ma nic bardziej pociągającego, niż fajna osoba z dobrą książką, w odpowiednio dobranej pościeli.

Nie czytasz? Nie idę z Tobą do łóżka!
Mar 2 at 10:17amFedilab
Show threadArratoonMar 2
@dzwiedziu @Daojoan Off the top of my head the John Waters quote was something like: “If you go back to someone’s house and they don’t have any books don’t fuck them.” Sound advice.
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@arratoon
Yeah, that is even quoted on the action's page, yet I was looking for a primary source to verify.

And to expand this is troublesome advice. Books can be in storage or electronic or audio. You can read magazines, zines, long-form articles, and still be a decent person.

Because often such thinking is intellectual snobbery, as books are often expensive and require time.

@Daojoan

Show threadJim ReaMar 2

@dzwiedziu @arratoon @Daojoan 30 years ago, if someone was a reader there would be no hiding it. All books were paper, and even if some were stored there would always be books at hand.

Now this clue is no longer available. Instead, you would actually have to *talk* to someone to find this out. I knew, how inconvenient!

Note that I’m not saying someone that isn’t a reader isn’t worth knowing, that would indeed be snobbery. But it is a useful data point.

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@provuejim
Yes, that's a good observation.

And if instead of this coming naturally from a conversation, they are telling you not prompted and how, that will be another nice data point.

@arratoon @Daojoan