I have seen many people these days addicted to Tiktok, youtube shorts, or Instagram reels. Myself included, I feel like not many people read books these days. I for one rarely read normal books, but I do read a lot of manga and webtoons. My question do you consider them as reading?

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[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It is reading. The medium is not the issue. Some people read romance novels or adventure novels, are they better than romance or adventure comics?

This is like going back to when books were considered bad because theatre was the main way to tell stories.

The discussion to have is about the topics these comic books are covering. Are they varied enough? Can everything be made into a comic?

But if having some illustrations is helping anyone to read, they should go for it.