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Plenty of people still read and read a lot. I also have other hobbies, but I don't think it's going away. There are more books being published than ever before. There are also genres like science fiction and fantasy that are HUGE now and were once much smaller.


I mean happy for you, but that's a bit of a non sequitur, isn't it? The thread we're in is literally called "The cultural decline of literary fiction", and none of what you say is actually mutually exclusive with that.


Indeed, it's about the decline of literary fiction - a very specific subset of literature that comprises a tiny part of fiction, nevermind the totality of all literature. People still read books, just not these particular books.


Agreed. Sorry for getting off topic. I interpreted some of the comments as veering off into talking about the decline of literature as a whole.




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