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Americans are violently opposed to the practice of reading
I've talked to so many people who proud themselves on not having read a book since leaving school.
School does a good job of teaching people to hate reading.
one of the ways i got motivated into reading as a little kid is one of my teachers would hand out candy whenever i finished reading a book and took a short quiz on it. very effective! my grandma would also do story time over the phone and stuff
We had a program at our school that would give you a coupon for a free pizza every 10 or so books that you read (this was grade school so they weren't really too long, think beginners level chapter books), which worked pretty well for me. Now as a grown adult, I wish I still had a way to get free pizza.
Apparently Pizza Hut
still has the Book It! program lol
Yep, that is it! Completely forgot the name, but I do remember that it was Pizza Hut. I'm more surprised that they're still doing it, I figured they would have killed that off by now. I want pizza now.
What the heck! I wanted candy when I was younger too, it would have been nice to have your teacher.
Yeah, I agree. I only got by when I read books for my own enjoyment. Really made me appreciate Shakespeare for example, particularly Hamlet and King Lear.
the most incurious people on the planet, even worse than the br*ts
Then let them ~~eat cake~~ listen to audiobooks
Commuting almost an hour one way means almost 2 hours "reading" a day, so long as you're wired for it. I understand some aren't able to digest books in that form.
Is also why like most people came here to begin with, they listened to a podcast. Really wish literal printed words weren't privileged so much, you can get through a shitload of books as audiobooks since you do not have to avoid doing anything else. Chores, your job, cooking, playing a relaxing game, you can basically just breathe books without your life being put on hold.
Absolutely, breathing books is a great way to put it.
It isn't the same as reading a book, and you have to be ready to pause frequently, but way better than nothing. Sometimes I even put music and an audiobook on at once
Nothing that requires full attention of course. Like pop-leftist books such as bullshit jobs there's a lot of what is to me fluff.