Why has it become cool to read? It didn't used to be this way.

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capitalism tries its best to make anything that involves buying and selling cool. books aren't quite as cool as video games or movies, though, because those products funnel the profits towards corporations and not individual humans.

because it's easier to transmit text over a serial line than it is to force digitized sound down it. this leads to the death of oral tradition.. no, wait, that was Caxton and Gutenberg.

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>Youre such a good reader Anon
>Teach me Anon senpai
>Read to us please, nyoro~
>Come to my dorm room later and talk about literature with me *wink*

Yes yes yes, its finally happening. I've waited so long for this day.

It's still not very cool. I tried reading on the bus but the girls around me were whispering and giggling, "What's he reading?" "I bet it's a porno book."

My friends make fun of my books every time they are at my place, which is a couple times a week.

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>>7489741
That happens every day when I go to classes, it makes me quite content though. If it were people I respect as opposed to sorority girls and frat dudes, I might get a little bit self conscious though.

>>7487678

>Why has it become cool to read?

I thought mainstream television shows and media were still trying to push science being cool, is it over now?

>>7489774
I can't really tell if that's readable, but hope it is. Sorry haven't eaten in 26 hours

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>>7489883
please end yourself

>>7487678
society has become so pleb that reading is an act of non-conformity now

idk i doubt any authors will have a readership that exceeds the viewership of Mike and Molly

>>7489977
>Always has been this way
>in America

>>7489741
>>7489774

literally who is saying this? unless you were ACTUALLY reading a porno book, i feel no one would call you out on it.

>>7489797

need to encourage more kiddies to STEM. won't be gone for a while.

>>7489797
No, but literature is cool too.
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>>7490285
>implying I live in my mum's basement

its just another hipstery counter-culture thing now that fewer people do it

It has become "cool" to read absolute shit like Harry Potter and John Green abominations. That isn't literature, it's garbage. Most books that are actually good are still boring to people so they'll continue reading their young adult tripe or cool, edgy fantasy. The same people that thinks Lord of the Rings needs fewer songs (if they even read Tolkien) are the same cretins that jack off to whatever literary diarrhoea GRRM blasts forth from his cavernous asshole.

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>>7492020
As elitist as this yahari /lit/ shitpost is, it has a point in that Harry Potter really DID make reading cool again, at least among its target audience. But even if Harry Potter were as worthless as this post makes it out to be, the fact that it has gotten more kids into reading is a valuable thing. What we need is good-quality literature that is poised in both subject matter and lexical weight to wean kids off of stuff like Harry Potter.