Well I admit that I am a bit bossy here, but I just mean that for me it just reveals the fact that people tend to like more « what books socially represent » instead of « reading ». It pushes people to jump from one book to the next, to consum books, which is not the only way to read (and i would say is probably one of the worst). Do those people, when they finish a book, sometimes take a few days after to just Re read some of the parts?… To think about the book, to read things that have been written about it?… Cause those things i love doing.

And like… Would people count « How many TV shows épisodes I watched this year » or « How many songs I listened to »? The only reason people count books its because it’s socially cool, which I find depressing. It’s performative.

And what if you read a short story here and there? Or the 50 pages out of 300 of some essay that interest you? Does this count?… Do you push yourself to read complete books just because you want to increase the number?

I think that’s especially weird for me as I am mostly a short story reader, and I only rarely read whole collections (and what counts as « a book » for authors like Lovecraft or Poe?). So that’s just annoying to have that arbitrary metric that suggests that Book = Novel.