What else do you read that can be measured in number of books? You wouldn't do that for news articles, blog posts, or scientific papers. Cookbooks, textbooks and dictionaries are books, but you rarely read those from cover to cover, so you wouldn't see people talking about the number of books they've read in that context.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you forget that non-fiction exists as a genre? Biographies and memoirs are very popular, for example.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, right. Sorry about that. I'm just thinking through all the things I've read in the recent months and looking through my bookshelf. Seems our reading habits here are rather narrow.

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