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Protesting the Decline of Reading (www.millersbookreview.com)

submitted 5 months ago by overflow64@lemmy.ml to c/chat@literature.cafe

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[–] konomikitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because people aren't reading books doesn't mean they aren't reading. I'm sure some people are just watching video content like TikTok or Youtube etc, but they'd have just been watching TV anyway.

People are reading, just not books so much.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you count as reading outside of books?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well everybody fucking hates the TikTok voice, but like 90% of those videos have subtitles and you can just mute the fucking thing and read what its saying.

Lots of "watching videos" is actually "reading videos" these days. Especially with technical How-To videos, which often require you to read what's on the screen as well. If my How-To video is about coding, reading the code on the screen is pretty damn important.

I'm constantly watching internet videos completely muted while reading the text subtitles.